Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 18, 2013 1:18 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget) by bojan
Parent article: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

"Your point is that what Red Hat decided to ship as a default UI in RHEL7 is not a reflection on the value of the new, overview based UI"

Not all all. I explicitly said commercial validation is important but the focus on only that is too narrow and reeks of proprietary vendors and you need to understand and ack the community value as well.

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 18, 2013 1:44 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (1 responses)

What you actually wrote is this (i.e. exactly what I paraphrased above):

> If they didn't think the default mode for GNOME Shell was useful, they wouldn't be funding it.

Clearly, based on a alternative default UI choice in RHEL7, default mode (overview paradigm) is not what they find useful. Otherwise, they would be promoting as the "best since sliced bread, what Microsoft did with tiles, kinda thingy".

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 18, 2013 1:49 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I understand your argument but find it a sad and narrow perspective. I am just reminded of Solaris and CDE. Hopefully the Linux community on the whole has a broader view of things.