Five basic principles for Fedora, from a server perspective.

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:12 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:56:21PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 3. Fedora is Unix-like
> [...]
> >  I'd also like to quote from a blogpost about gnome-os and gnome3:
> > 
> > "What lies underneath is mostly just implementation detail. What matters
> > is what we expose to the user and the developer. I propose that we take
> > notes from Android, WebOS, Meego, and others and consider Linux an
> > implementation detail and start to define the OS as we see fit."
> > 
> > That's from 
> > 
> > http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/08/01/shell-yes/
> > 
> > how do you reconcile #3 there with that?
> > 
> > b/c I am having a difficult time doing that.
> 
> Is there something more to that post then conflation of a desktop
> environment with an "OS"? There's multiple places where one can draw the
> line, from "only the kernel is the OS" all the way up to this view. But
> fundamentally, here, Gnome shell or whatever is just a fancy application
> stack running on top of something else.

And all the intervening layers required to get there.

-sv