Someone's missing the point...it's us.

[Stuart Ellis]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 23:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >"Home desktops that you maintain for other people" is definitely another
> >common use case.  Personally I feel that Fedora is currently less suited
> >to this than some other distros.  For example, the quantity of updates
> >is problematic for systems with dial-up connections.
> >
> We cant really reduce the number of updates without changing the design 
> of the project. 

I'm not suggesting that we do - it's just a design choice that suits the
aims of Fedora but (IMO) makes it less suited to the case that Thijs
mentioned.  Frequent updates is probably a good talking point for other
cases, like "hobbyist desktops" and "OSS developer workstations".

-- 

Stuart Ellis

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