On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Liam <liam.bulkley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not talking about "people" I'm talking about
producers, exclusively. At
this point a majority of macs are being sold to people, but it used to be
that they were used by creatives and schools. Why? Mostly app availability
but also a perception that apple was developing for them in particular. With
osx they took a massive leap forward with their tech and actual began to
offer better workflows than windows. THAT'S what we should be trying to do.
It's not easy but it's something that would definitely bring new users. It
would finally provide us with a compelling story for those who aren't
passionate about floss. As it is, Linux, on the desktop, has no compelling
advantages over osx/windows.
The creators / producers I know (a small sample, localized to PDX) are
almost 100 percent MacOS X and nearly all of them develop with Chrome
and only test on other browsers. There's a small Linux subset, mostly
running Ubuntu LTS. We have a Mozilla lab here so there's probably
more Firefox here than in places where Mozilla doesn't have a lab. I
run Fedora and Firefox.
A lot has happened in those 2.5 releases;)
Reasons to run Fedora are several: more recent software, chance to see/guide
changes that will make their way to rhel, and easiest for upstream
developers (obviously).
I run Fedora because it's great for doing remixes. I used to run
openSUSE for the same reason; I switched when "Beefy Miracle" was in
mid-beta.
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with Fedora and Mozilla. I
know there's
at least one Fedora member who's leading the effort in porting Firefox to
gtk3, but, other than that, there doesn't seem to be much collaboration.
I'd also throw a +1 or two for packaging Firefox Developer Edition,
although the upstream changes almost every day - there would need to
be a fair amount of automated testing tied to it given that. Firefox
stable seems to change fairly regularly too.