-----Original Message----- From: fedora-marketing-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-marketing-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2007 8:04 PM To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base Subject: Fedora's mid-life crisis Hi This might lead to interesting changes in the project. Watch out! http://lwn.net/Articles/242965 "The Fedora project has a solid base to build on and an increasingly open community process to help it get to where it wants to be. With the right focus on an interesting set of goals, Fedora could surprise the world. This distribution should have no trouble proving that it's not over the hill yet." Rahul I would have thought that the Fedora Board would have considered that question and possibly answered it in their own heads. It's one of the long standing question who is the target market. Now people can say it's aimed at devs but to me it seems like Fedora is very strong in the server market but on the desktop side of things it doesn't go all the way. Leaving Codecs out of it cause to me that's irrelevant. Using PCLinuxOS or Ubuntu as an example they have pointed themselves directly at the desktop market and their server or Ubuntu's server setup isn't as good as Fedora's (My opinion = SELinux, stability and ease of install). Fedora to me as always looked and felt like a Corporate Desktop and or Corporate Server more so than a home desktop. Yet by the same token there are some significant enhancements in the desktop part that I have thought damn they are good. So I suppose it's back to the question who is Fedora targeting as an audience? Should Fedora separate out certain aspects to cater to certain areas? Like coming up with ideas for desktop enhancements and a group for Server enhancements. With the Live-CD's I believe that's a HUGE step in the right direction. Cheers, Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
