Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Tue Nov 5 21:54:48 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 16:15 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > I don't get your example but I agree with Reindl Harald - Linux
> > > Distribution is a set of software that works as one coherent
> > > environment. Let it be 10, 100 or 100000000000 different packages but
> > > they're chosen, compiled and adjusted to work together. This is the
> > > strength of Linux as operating system.
> > 
> > I'd like to see the QA matrix on that one...
> 
> It's hideous, but I suspect the QA matrix for sandboxed apps would be
> even worse. Are you going to guarantee to me that the sandboxing will be
> 100% perfect - that we'll *never* have the case where a 'sandboxed' app
> works on Ubuntu 13.04 but not on Fedora 18?

There's bugs in every software. But it should work. That's the aim.

> Yeah, I didn't think so...

Might not want to put answers in people's mouths. Did you read up on the
various bundling techniques that were explored and the API/ABI guarantees we
want to offer? I'll stop short of paraphrasing you.


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