On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:11 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:43 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote: > > > I actually wrote that content in a different context, as a working > > analysis to show where we differ from other well-known desktops. > > I'd almost rather see us do a: > > Here are LOTS of reasons why Fedora is cool/useful/fun. Agreed. Again, I wrote it up to support an argument that desktops superficially look a lot alike, e.g. a common Windows setup and a standard Fedora desktop have equivalent software for a lot of things. I don't personally advocate putting on it a public Website - my point was really to *challenge* the usual practice of laundry lists of applications with no context. The difference between Linux/Windows is perhaps more in the overall experience... watching inexperienced computer users on Windows - the usability of many desktop applications actually sucks unless you are a power user and understand the conventions, and the lack of malware takes a lot of the hassle out. IMO, these things are hugely important, but of course are not actually unique to Fedora. > We should focus on the specific things that we know we have and that we > know other popular distros do not Yes, although the unique technologies are harder to summarize and demonstrate, because they aren't desktop-orientated in the usual sense. I think that one common theme is that Fedora/RHEL are uniquely good at deployment - you can get a well-behaved desktop or server very quickly, with remote admin features built-in, and can also deploy systems in large numbers. Why would someone in the market for an operating system to install care about deployment or support features, though, or even usability ? One answer might be that they are installing systems for others to use. Of course the release cycle goes against that... -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA
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