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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectMcGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectPosted Oct 5, 2010 2:13 UTC (Tue) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906)In reply to: McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project by jmorris42 Parent article: McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project
It amuses me that you think you know more about what Fedora can be then someone who works with it every day.
So lets put it in these terms, simplified since I think talking in abstracts has confused you.
RHEL: Mostly server stuff
Which future better builds off of those three money makers? The Linux desktop? Or cloud hosted web services? Also keeping in mind that, to date, no one has come close to making money off the Linux desktop.
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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 5, 2010 3:17 UTC (Tue) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906) [Link]
Bad form replying to myself but I didn't address the "doesn't know what a distribution is"
I know exactly what it is. And I know that non-server distributions have gotten very little traction. Which is why I'm proposing something very outside the box. Even our poster-child Ubuntu hasn't been able to bump web client marketshare above 2%. We have roughly the same web client marketshare as iOS on the iphone.
Think about that. We've got roughly the same marketshare as an operating system that is only 3 years old, costs money up front *AND* in many cases has a monthly fee in order to use it. It's not free, at all. And yet it's, at the moment, got similar numbers. Some people don't care about marketshare or users. They're entitled to that. But I have higher hopes for us and this free software model and I'd hate to think that "this is it".
I'm just saying what we're doing... the status quo... It's not working except for on the server. So lets just embrace it, drop what's not working, and move on.
McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 8, 2010 14:00 UTC (Fri) by compte (guest, #60316) [Link]
You don't have a hardware to go with Fedora. You could ask Intel to do it, to have their laptops pre-installed with a working stable Fedora desktop. I know, there is no stable Fedora desktop, and you don't want to invest money in it because it's not making a profit.
About Ubuntu, it's not stable either or anything close. I would be willing to pay a fair price for a stable desktop, but it has to be popular so its future support is guaranteed, and it want be popular if its not pre-installed. As I said before, RHEL is too outdated for a desktop user. About Linux missing the Desktop. I know, but there are more than 1000 Linux distributions and various versions within each.
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