F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 11:16:37 UTC 2012


2012/1/25 Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl>:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:01:07PM +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
>
>> I don't think Fedora is for 'consumers'. Due to the policy to not
>> include many non-free components and missing apps from main repos, I
>> don't consider it a consumer OS. I tried it myself and also tried to put
>> it on average user's PCs but it refuse to work as a consumer OS should
>> work. I still can't boot Fedora 16 on my PC.
>>
>> Yes, it is a superbly great developer OS.
>
> I don't completely agree with you (and who says you can't install
> additional non-free components on top of an OS?), but an even bigger
> problem would then be the enterprise/business preview naming

Indeed, enterprise/business is not the Fedora realm.

> (although
> I *do* install/maintain Fedora as a desktop for business customers,
> as RHEL c.s. just contains too old software for some desktop users).
>
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