On Mon, November 22, 2004 4:42 pm, Denis Leroy said: > So my question was: shouldn't Fedora stand in the middle ? Shouldn't > it be the job of putting together a desktop-oriented distribution > precisely to coordinate the efforts of the various "forces" out there > (a hard and thankless job IMO), and reach compromises in order to > provide the best possible desktop experience. This has nothing to do > with kernel development, but rather in picking the right features to > use in that kernel without breaking the most popular components, > coordinating schedules and releases with said components, to make sure > a Fedora Core release doesn't break the Nvidia drivers (one of those > most popular components, whether you like it or not) or doesn't happen > one week before Firefox 1.0 is released. Isn't there somebody in the > Fedora community (whether he/she's a RedHat employee or not) that Is Fedora supposed to be "desktop-oriented", should its developers be worried about working with closed-source "forces"? Here's what an Fedora webpage says, http://fedora.redhat.com/about : "The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system ****exclusively**** from open source software." [nb. **excessive** emphasis added] If there are enough people worried about one or more binary blobs, then an independent support-community should be easy to organize which wouldn't need assistance from those who are completely uninterested in such efforts. > should be working on this ? His/her job would include calling Nvidia > and saying something like this "Hi, i work on the Fedora distro. Even > though our kernel developers hate you, half of our users use your > drivers and we'd rather not break it for our next release. Is there > anything we can do?". To which there is or isn't of course, but at > least somebody's gotta try... If you volunteer your services, it would be an interesting experiment. Changes are usually telegraphed far enough in advance (through rawhide, etc) that it shouldn't be a big surprise when issues arise. Sean
