On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > We had a distro that was pretty general purpose, worked for servers and > desktops and even laptops. We had a predictable schedule. We had new > technology thanks to rawhide. We had timely bugfixes that didn't sacrifice > stability, as in things didn't change out from under you on a stable > release. We had an ecosystem of third parties that would build up stacks > of newer things should a user be adventurous. We had a fresh release quite > often that could be relied upon for at least a year. We had a culture of > not just throwing crap over the wall at our users, which included > ourselves. We had accountability when things did go awry and a honest > effort to disrupt the users of our stable releases as little as possible. > We also we're a very free distro avoiding nonfree stuff, and we worked > well with upstreams. We we're easy to configure, easy to update, easy to > install whether a single system or 400 systems in a lab. We we're easy to > administrate in the same scenarios. This sounds like an excellent definition for what Fedora should be. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
