On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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.
Small steps every release. PackageKit is a great step. Codeina is a good
step. Rootless install will be a good step. Encrypted homedirs will be a
good step.
Most Fedora users still download the DVD where we don't even enable
NetworkManager yet.
Which is a problem. Who's pitching in to fix it?
"More NetworkManager" is already listed at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList
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.
One which we *should not* walk away from, btw.
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.
Want to know the direction? Look at the proposed feature set.
Want to drive the direction? Propose features. :)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList
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.
Meh. Everyone will have their own opinions; my opinion is that YaST is an
ugly hammer that breaks as much as it "simplifies".
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.
Desktop config tools are the 100% wrong approach to this problem.
Highly customizable server/web-based config tools are the 100% right
approach to this problem (which is, incidentally, a whole class of
problems that are different for different admins.)
Which is why func matters:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/func/
But guess what? That has *nothing* to do with the newbie users to whom
the reviewer alludes.
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