Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:04:24AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I'm guessing that you mean that Ubuntu is more popular, and has a
> much bigger installed user base.  If so, it's probably because it's
> designed to be very user friendly, doesn't make a big deal about
> some of the software restrictions that Fedora cares about and is, as
> I like to say, designed for "Windows refugees."  Fedora, OTOH, is a
> much more geeky distro designed as a test bed for new ideas,
> programs and technologies that's not for people who don't like to
> tinker with things or who aren't willing to accept that not
> everything in their distro is really ready for prime time.

+1 to this, too. I don't think we *want* to become the mainstream
windows-replacement OS, because that's not where we want to be on the
innovation curve.


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