Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 21:18:51 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 11:32 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 01:30:04PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I think the confusion arises from the term "product". I've no idea what
> > it's supposed to mean. OTOH "spin" isn't very clear to the newbie user
> > either. That said, some such term to indicate typical configurations of
> 
> Naming things is famously hard; I agree — we could to better here. Any
> suggestions? I would also like to find better way to distinguish the
> spins like KDE desktop, where there is full QA and a number of
> dedicated people, from those which get minimal effort and often have
> serious problems that no one fixes.

In other industries "model" distinguishes one variant from another:

Fedora model=server
Fedora model=workstation-Gnome
Fedora model=workstation-KDE

The above are well-supported. Then we have:

Fedora model=workstation, desktop=LXDE
etc.

which exist but are not the main focus at present (though they might
graduate to workstation-LXDE or whatever in some later release).

I don't expect that to please everyone but I'll throw it out there.

poc



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