Re: Pitching Fedora to Desktop users who already want Linux

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Michael DeHaan wrote:
Sorry for another desktop thread, but I thought this was an interesting data point. This is an interesting data point because I think it's about message and not so much about technical data.

I was talking with a user who did not want to look at Fedora or an EL on the desktop where they work for the following reasons, and was looking at using Ubuntu. Naturally knowing that really there is almost no difference in these (Gnome is Gnome) and they didn't even need the non-free codecs, I figured I would pass on the comments in hopes that this would be useful to someone else.

Just in case, codecs are the issue, I am working on something:

http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-August/000894.html

Their Comments:

(A) Fedora is too much of an upgrade process every six months. This is interesting to me because Ubuntu comes out at about the same rate. I did not think they were talking about LTS releases, but are we pitching the ease of things like preupgrade enough?

Preupgrade up until recently and perhaps not just yet is not something that just works. It came in late during the Fedora 9 release cycle and it had a few bugs in it still. It was slightly different from the regular Anaconda upgrade experience. It was also a not easily discoverable command line application. All of that is changing

* PackageKit has the ability to notify users when a upgrade is available and preupgrade is going to be hooked up to it. The user is something like this:

http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png

* The whitelist/blacklist magic in Anaconda is split out into yum plugins which Preupgrade will use making the experience more consistent

* Number of bugs have been fixed and we should be able to promote this feature to non-technical end users more.

In short, I have high hopes that this will resolve one of the classical pain points so far.


(B) Comments that Red Hat, not Fedora, was disinterested in the desktop -- therefore they were less interested in Fedora as they didn't see an investment. Clearly not true.

Well, the Red Hat press on this was easily misquoted and there was some amount of dramatization around it.

I don't see this being
applicable because it's a capable desktop, we invest well in it, and Fedora cares very much about this. Again, how do we pass on that message? Again, nothing technical is IMHO required, it's mostly about dispelling those statements.

In the context of fedora-marketing, I'm wondering how we can deal with this image that -- as far as I can not tell, is not descriptive of the distro.

We recently rewrote our overview to highlight the amount of desktop infrastructure we are investing in.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview

Also

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions

Hope that helps.

Rahul

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