Should we take this discussion to a "more technical" list? > Ya I really am saddened that no other distros have taken advantage of > YaST being open source. Everyone keeps wasting resources and > rebuilding when YaST is a good alternative and includes an ncurses gui > too. I really like YaST and is probably the reason I keep having a > hard time deciding between Fedora and openSUSE and keeping both of > them on my HD. Porting YaST should be way simpler for Fedora as it is > already RPM based. So many modules are there that rebuilding something > else just seems like a waste of time. > > On 8/30/06, Nicola Losito <n.losito@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > So here i am again. > > I've let settle down a little dust in the discussion with Raul. > > > > From a Marketing point (yes, techicians ALL hates marketing) point how > > can/want we "force" the developers to appeal more customers ? > > And i do not mean professional ones which uses XEN or SElinux in a > > "conscious" way, but everyday people. I mean the point & click inclined to. > > I might say to look on how Novell has worked on the desktop experience of > > SLED starting from the openSUSE, there are some yards of difference between > > the two projects. > > > > From my point of view we can welcome more people: > > > > - talking till come blue in the face of Fedora, of what's going on and why > > (possibily); > > > > - continuing this road of "disclosure" i am enjoying since Max has come > > "the" chief :-P > > > > - simplyfing the package management & retrieval (again to give a slight idea > > i would *love* a hugest as possible fedora-extra repo, an external > > FC-compatible non-US repository for packages that are allowed almoust > > everywhere but not in the USA and a "Penguin Liberation Front" style repo); > > > > - answering in a clear and motivated way to people approaching .... being > > told "your vision is wrong or different" is useless. We have to suppose that > > people who subscribes here or another no help-desk list has read and > > understood our "policies" and still has a different take on them. Things are > > always perfectible (hope it's the right word) and welcoming new ideas is not > > always bad. On the contrary to stick obsessively with self made rules would > > end in a closed environment, and we - i suppose - are for the Open. > > > > - try to develop more friendly and unified "control center" .... now for > > Fedora (and also Debian) i see a tendency to put this effort on Gnome or > > KDE. I like the Mandriva Control Center and YaST approach, and since someone > > told me YaST is smart enough to leave untouched hand-modified files and > > since it has become GPL'd i would like other distro approach and make it > > better than it is (as it's being done with Smart Package management). > > > > So, lunch is coming my way .... i'll stop bothering this list ! > > Thanks for reading ++ i do hope to have been "understandable" > > > > > > > > -- > > Nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. Losito > > http://koolinus.wordpress.com -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
