Christopher Aillon wrote:
On 12/17/2007 03:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Critique
"But despite all these positives, the distribution still fails to
attract first-time Linux users
Really? I don't think this is true at all.
Even a lot of long time Fedora users don't seem to be thinking of Fedora
as a newbie friendly distribution though and this is to some extend
because our focus on the desktop has not been immediately evident.
Most Fedora users still download the DVD where we don't even enable
NetworkManager yet. We also have sacrificed many features like good
webcam support (requires third party kernel modules like gspca) in favor
of upstream focus which is a conscious trade off.
If we are thinking of the next major milestones after the merge of
Fedora Core and Extras and custom spins, a clearly conveyed focus (IMO
on the client - desktop, laptops, embedded devices) is what we need.
who sometimes complain about the lack of
a central configuration utility
I have heard this as a complaint fairly often and Oracle even recently
ported Yast from SUSE to RHEL (for "Unbreakable Linux") so there does
seem to be some demand for it.
Awesome! (Seriously.) Configuration is evil. With few exceptions,
things should "Just Work" without needing configuration. See
NetworkManager, gnome-power-manager, work we're doing with bluetooth,
killing off xorg.conf, etc. etc.
You are looking at this from the desktop perspective where you are
right. Things like Postfix, Apache and Samba are always going to need
tweaking in various circumstances. As a former sys admin who was
managing data centers, I don't see configuration requirements just going
away anytime soon on servers. We can make it easier but
system-config-httpd doesn't seem to be the answer here. Microsoft
Management Console goes way beyond that for example.
Rahul
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