On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 18:41 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 15:39 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > > > >> Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> > > > > > >> > There is simply not enough console users [cut] to do anything but > >> > life support anymore. > >> > >> On what facts do you base that opinion ? > >> > > > > Probably, because most console users already quit using Fedora, > > > > +1. > > And situation is worse than simply loss of a rare segment of the market. > > Who are "console users"? Most cases they are users who began for a long > time ago (when GUI was either poor or unavailable). Yep, this is likely one group (BTW: There are still situations, where Fedora's GUI is either poor or unavailable). It's likely the same group which is booting into "runlevel 3". Other groups/use-cases, I see: - Situations of emergency (Broken X-server, memory hogging-desktop desktop apps etc.) - Debugging. - Machines without GUI installed. Probably the latter is hard to imagine to the folks who came up this proposal. Yes, folks, there are machines which are being used without a GUI! > Anyway, while Fedora is (still) considered as "general purpose disto", > it should has console. I regret having to state this, but I have been thinking Fedora has quit being a "general purpose distro" for quite a while. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
