-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/2014 07:52 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next ? > > The Workstation WG, looks like a Gnome only thing, will there be > at place of users of other DE's in Fedora.next ? > Fedora Products will be effectively a set of add-on guarantees atop the software distribution that is The Fedora Project. When you say today "I'm running Fedora", that really isn't a meaningful statement. About all it tells someone is that you're running the latest upstream kernel on an RPM-based distribution with mostly the newest versions of whichever packages you have installed. We're *not* taking that away. You will always be able to turn The Fedora Project into whatever custom distribution you want it to be. However, when you install a Fedora Product, what you get will be something more than that. It will define a minimum set of known packages and interfaces upon which other software can build. In the case of the Fedora Workstation, that essentially means that a third-party software application can count on having the GNOME Desktop and all its dependent libraries, plus the QT libraries available on the system. It provides a stronger guarantee about which set of APIs are "official" and see better testing. If you decide you don't want some of those things, you can remove them and the system will no longer self-identify as "Fedora Workstation". In that case, it will just be the classic "Fedora" again. Or, you can choose to just install whichever desktop you want atop Fedora Workstation and use it (provided that it can be started from GDM, if I understand the Product guarantees correctly; someone from the Workstation WG can correct me here if I am mistaken). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMpiFUACgkQeiVVYja6o6OFrQCdHHR5kYuPWXHq4DII1SIePBlo /FgAoK3fTCGfU+rZOAx1VlUmbAnlYQ0p =V3AP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
