Fedora's mid-life crisis

[Imtiaz Rahi]

Luya is one point. Fedora is used and can be used for so many purposes.
As a base distro Fedora can concentrate to be a good desktop even without
considering the Multimedia issues.
With some more polish like to be a good choice for Laptop, ease of use.
And even with those I guess Fedora will not loose its appeal as server
distro.
Whether we don't support Fedora for long time or not its being used as
server in lots of places, at production sites.
Because of its stability (acceptable range) and ease of configure. Its got
the balance of configuration using GUI and command line.

Only painful thing to me is YUM. RPM packages are good but YUM, Pirut and
others are not good enough.
Synaptic is still better to see what updates are available, then choose one
and find out what are the dependencies which are going to be downloaded and
etc.

Fedora has so many ways to go and opportunities, may be thats why we don't
know where to go.
Certainly, I don't want to mention it as just a developer distro.

Also, any derivatives should be able to say its based on Fedora rather then
removing all Fedora branding. Fedora should be that much flexible.

Why don't we arrange a poll ?

Cheers,
Imtiaz


On 8/6/07, Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz at thefinalzone.com> wrote:
>
> Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> > Hi
> >
> > This might lead to interesting changes in the project. Watch out!
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/242965
> >
> > "The Fedora project has a solid base to build on and an increasingly
> > open community process to help it get to where it wants to be. With
> > the right focus on an interesting set of goals, Fedora could surprise
> > the world. This distribution should have no trouble proving that it's
> > not over the hill yet."
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> There is so much that Fedora can do while only using  FOSS, the limit is
> the developers/users imaginations. Fedora is used from studios (Pixar)
> to embedded device like OLPC and Playstation 3. I think most outsiders
> won't admit they don't understand how the process works and instead rely
> on misquoted and twisted views from some IT medias.
>
>
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