On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 21:30 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 15:02 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 16:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > I regret having to state this, but I have been thinking Fedora has quit > > > being a "general purpose distro" for quite a while. > > > > More to the point, the only large active group trying to move things > > forward for Fedora are those that care about the Desktop experience, > > ergo those are the directions Fedora is going in. It's a serve yourself > > kind of project, it is what you make of it. > > > > I think you're begging the question. > > Ralf is saying that the changes the desktop teams wants to make are not > FORWARD. Correct. > They are in a direction that is sub-optimal for various things. Also correct. > And to be fair a lot of other people who do things with fedora don't > require large changes for that to happen. The folks providing functional > daemons, for example, they don't need much more than a quasi-stable base > to run on. Exactly. At least I would not complain, if things "just worked". Unfortunately this doesn't apply. With each Fedora release, I experience things which are advertised as "revolutionary new features/great achievements" to actually worsen my use-cases. Often this is presumably because these new developments did not take into account certain setups'/use-cases' requirements and likely had been designed on single-user-desktops. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
