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Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 20:48:18 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 09:40:53PM +0100, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 09:49:49AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > In any case, I agree with you here, as well as Christian's later post
> > today on vision. I think gnome should be the default offering, but we
> > should provide ways for savvy folks or those who aren't happy
> > with Gnome to switch to other available desktops if they wish. (With
> > the understanding that it's best effort, and Gnome will likely be more
> > active). People who know what desktop they prefer can use that, and
> > folks who have no idea what the various desktops mean can try our
> > default offering. 
> 
> Just to clarify, I think the idea of "default offering" is not
> something onto which we tack three additional products (Cloud, Server,
> Workstation).  The idea of the Workstation, AIUI, is to provide a
> Fedora product that could conceivably take the place of the current
> default offering.

I should clarify my clarification ;-) by saying this is not the *only*
idea of the Workstation, just one aspect of what the product could
achieve.

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