website mockups, what is fedora?

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 23 14:55:14 UTC 2009


2009/8/21 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> On 08/21/2009 08:07 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> But let's not get muddled in details.
>>
>> Let me be brutally honest:  withholding choice and options here and/or
>> diminishing kde's visibility *will* disenfranchise a lot of people.
>> We'll lose out PR-wise big time, especially in light of opensuse's
>> recent work that is largely perceived as doing right by the community.
>>
>> Is that a price the board is willing to pay?
>
> Can't speak for the board but what opensuse did was go from trying to
> satisfy everybody (FAIL) to picking a default (right model). That
> actually seems to validate what Fedora is doing. The default is
> different because the community is different. Think about it.

Erm.. what openSUSE did was, leave everything as it is, but changed to
KDE as the default DE on the DVD. Means if you leave the installer at
the defaults, you get the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME one.

-- 
LG Thomas

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