PRD use cases

[Alek Paunov]

On 10.12.2013 12:45, Matthias Runge wrote:
> Additional use cases:
> * Database application
> * mail server (yes, that's really old school), like smtp, imap,
> spamassassin, etc.
> * is there a use case for virtual desktops?
>

Apologies for the late note. IMHO, there should be a marketing 
opportunity in the virtual desktop option too. I do not have the 
necessary numbers to back this opinion, but what follows are some local 
(micro) observations:

Many friends of mine had migrated to OSX notebooks in the recent years 
(the reasons are different subject, discussed already, and mostly 
addressed with Fedora.next strategy and point of view). Many of them are 
relatively experienced Linux developers and sysadmins and _all_ of them 
have _Linux_ as deployment target - mostly CentOS (hopefully Fedora 
Server 1.0 next year ;-), when the community succeeds with the whole 
technical and marketing effort).

But in OSX they do not have more than terminal, browser and text editor 
as environment - not the same compilers out of the box, no Spice client, 
nor any advanced development tools. To reduce the inconvenience, 
currently they spending fair amount of time to search and install 
modules and other things i.e. to mimic something "near" to the CentOS 
production environment locally on their Apple calculators.

My current development environment is Fedora VM with enabled xrdp/vnc. 
So, I have personal experience how convenient is that setup - access to 
a _live_ session with few clicks from practically everywhere - customer 
site, home, office. I not have installed Guacamole yet (the HTML5 RD 
client), but have this in my todo too.

I hope 4-5 Fedora formulas, targeted to different stacks (Python, Java, 
Perl, etc.) with 1-2 formulas available as prebuild images (intended for 
easy testing, and with installed formula-to-image tool for bootstrapping 
other flavors), ready to be used in public/private cloud and/or with 
e.g. Vagrant locally, might have chance to attract number of 
devs/sysadmins and to bring positive effect on their performance.

Kind Regards,
Alek