On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:11 +0200, Herman Meester wrote: > Hi everyone, > I translated the recently refreshed section of "Major distributions" on > distrowatch.com into Dutch. > That text is in fact the opinion of the site's owner, Ladislav Bodnar. > It's not "the gospel", but I do suspect many people new to Linux will > check that page out and take its content for relatively authoritative. > There was one remark on Fedora that I couldn't agree with. > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major&language=EN > "Cons: Less community-oriented than other major distributions; its > priorities tend to lean towards enterprise features, rather than desktop > usability" > I don't really agree with the 2nd line either, which is not really > important to argue about (leads to a lot of nonsense on non-free stuff > anyway), but especially since Fedora 7's merger of Core and Extras, the > live spin thing, etc., I think that the first line, "Less > community-oriented than other major distributions" is simply no longer > true - if it ever was. > Could "y'all" or some of you come up with good arguments to present to > Mr. Bodnar (on this list, I mean), so I can object to this in a > convincing manner? Or is there (still) some truth in his statement? Well, the "less community oriented" is just argumentative, so you're probably not going to get them to budge there. I don't like the negative use of the word "desktop" which could be interpreted to mean "corporate desktop" as well, even though they use the sole use of the word "enterprise" in a contrasting note at the end. I would have them rephrase it ... "As Red Hat's leading edge technology community for new enterprise server and workstation features, Fedora developments and releases may have a discord with more consumer and home desktop features versus other distributions." Or something like that. I can't seem to peg the wording. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
