Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:08:12 +0200, lee wrote:

> Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> writes:

> It has been established that it is irrelevant what users think. [....]

	Where? How? (if that's not sarcasm)

	There were long discussions in the Nineties on various lists (particularly ones hosted at RedHat, predecessors to this list) between those who held that Linux was a pretty toy for the Alpha Plus Technoids, a kind of "art for art's sake" -- and others who held that it had much broader appeal and would bring in many people (especially as the Baby Boomers began to retire) who would want a clean and reliable tool but not care much about technicalia or other fine points. 

	The Boomers must've been retiring in droves by now; but if those discussions ever reached an articulated resolution, I must have missed it somehow. 

	How many of the developers of Gnome 3 are also here? How many of the developers of xfce, mate, and other alternatives to Gnome 3? And, perhaps least, how many are there of us to whom even source code might as well be in cuneiform or hieroglyphics, but who use and have long used our computers heavily?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.