On 12/17/2007 05:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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.
Then we need people to tell the world. Our engineers should not have to
hold this burden. They are doing an awesome job with coding up all the
features. If other distros are getting credit for it, we need a better
marketing effort. (For starters, the -marketing list is more of a
-news-monitor list). I'm not saying anyone is specifically to blame,
just stating the problem we have. I'd like to fix it.
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.
I am looking from the perspective the review touched on. If they are
going to say first time linux newbies don't like the lack of
configuration, chances are they just want a desktop and NOT
configuration crap. You can't compare people that want a config utility
for apache, etc. in the same sentence as linux newbies that just want
things to work.
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