Interested in helping improve the Fedora desktop experience?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 10/21/2009 11:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> As Colin says, Fedora's general philosophy is and has historically been
>> that it's more important to fix the bugs than to worry about temporary
>> bodges and workarounds for the immediate experience.
> 
> Well, sort of.  I don't think it's wrong to add a workaround or
> warning box in some situations even it's ugly; more what I'm saying in
> this particular case of graphics drivers is the payoff to engineering
> time ratio is really small.
> 
> The get-fedora page or the docs should make clear that if the Live
> system[1] doesn't work, it won't work when installed either.
> 
> [1] I really hate calling it "Live", it should be *the* image.

Magazines like to distribute the DVD images because in many places,
getting big packages like Openoffice.org off the internet is not really
feasible. The Live CD is a very bare bones system and doesn't give a
good experience to first time users. They are missing critical packages.

Rahul