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

[Robin Laing]

On 2014-03-23 10:19, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:35:20 +0100
> lee wrote:
>
>>> One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view,
>>> is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need.
>>
>> +1
>
> The distro that actually seems to care (at the moment) about
> users is Linux Mint (though I have no doubt that, like
> all open source projects, it will eventually be taken over
> by a cadre of "helpful" zealots who will yank the steering
> wheel in different direction because stupid users
> don't realize what they actually need :-).
>
> I use Fedora primarily because it is the best distro
> to use as an early warning system to find out what
> nonsense will land in RHEL in the future, and at work
> we need our software to run on RHEL, so Fedora is sort
> of like the Canary in the coal mine.
>


I think this is why my father went to Mint over Fedora and Centos when 
he did.

I like the analogy of the Canary.  It fits.  Like F20, many broken apps 
out of the box.  I need to get an clean install and test so I can report 
the bugs.