[Ambassadors] Re: Fedora 11: What do we expect?

Danishka Navin danishka at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 16:09:23 UTC 2009


2009/2/1 Kanin Horvath <mohaas05 at gmail.com>

> The goal of fedora isn't to make it super easy for new users to Linux.
>
>
That's ubuntu's job.
>

Whats wrong with "super easy" Operating System if it include all security
capabilities?

To whom you are developing this?
Is this for geeks? or for every one (including new users)?



>
>
>
Fedora aims to be a free, usable OS. I agree with some of your points but I
> don't think they are part of the goals of Fedora.
>
> Fedora isn't meant to compete with other operating systems. It aims to
> provide an independent solution to users.
>
> --
> Kamin Horvath
> Fedora Ambassadors USA
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:mohaas05
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Ashiqur Rahman Angel <angel at linux.org.bd>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It´s almost one year, I am with the Fedora community. In this one year, I
> met so many great people from Fedora community. I have visited hundreds of
> forums, mailing lists. I meet so many people who uses Fedora (also who
> doesn´t).  I have learned so many things from them. Some of them are happy
> using Fedora and some them are not. And I think, as a community member, it´s
> my responsibility to inform you guys about some issues that I think, why
> people doesnt like to use Fedora or switching to other distros. And
> something, that we need to fix.
>
> 1. Need to include RPM Fusion with Fedora 11 default installation (but not
> activated, like Fedora test repo or raw hide, as we don´t include
> proprietary software). If this is not possible (may be because of some legal
> issue), then I´ll say, we need a working GUI solution to install RPM Fusion.
> According to RPM Fusion <http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration> they
> explained a GUI solution to install the repo, but most of the time, it
> doesnt work at all (I myself, tested thousands time, also so many people
> there has, who tried, I searched for the solution, everyone give me CLI
> solution). And KPackage Kit can´t install it. So we need a solution that
> will work for GNOME and KDE both.
>
> 2. Need a GUI solution to install nVidia and ATI driver, that will
> automatically install the appropriate driver (Ubuntu has a GUI *Hardware
> Drivers *options that automatically download and install the driver, also
> they have Envy, its another GUI solution)
>
> 3. Need a GUI solution to install all kind of proprietary Multimedia codecs
> (Ubuntu has ubuntu-restricted-extras, they simply select it from package
> manager, and it installs all kind of codecs including JAVA)
>
> 4. Need a complete GUI solution to install softwares offline from cache
> (ofcourse if it can fix the dependency) or DVD Media.
>
> 5. There has a very easy way to install a rpm package from CLI (one single
> package, that has not any dependency issue or if it has, it´s possible to
> install the package by ignoring it). But from Fedora 9, GUI double click rpm
> install doesnt work at all. So, we need a GUI solution of it.
>
> 6. Need to add CD/DVD repo with Fedora 11 default installation, so people
> can use DVD to install softwares.
>
> 7. From /etc/yum.conf we need to edit  keepcache=0 to 1 as default. So
> people can use the cache to install software later or to some other PC.
>
> Many of you will say, why we are following Ubuntu? Well, I´ll say, no, we
> are not following them. This is the truth, what users want. And many of you
> will think, this ideas are stupid, but truth is If this issues we can fix,
> for sure, so many people will start using Fedora. My apologies, if I am
> wrong anywhere.
>
>
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