Desktop issues discussion proposal

[Mariano Draghi]

Havoc Pennington escribió:
> 
> One suggestion from Seth is to have a "UNIX" comps group, containing all
> the GUI stuff that traditional UNIX users expect that would not be
> interesting to our desktop users.
> 

That would be PERFECT!
I'm starting to get uncomfortable with the idea of losing choice, 
really. I mean, GNU/Linux has always been about choice. We shouldn't 
lose that. We shouldn't forget that Fedora is GNU/Linux. We shouldn't 
forget the contributors, the developers, the skilled people who like 
their old-not-so-friendly-apps, and doesn't care about the eye-candy and 
are BIG friends of the CLI.
I know that we should bring Linux to a bigger audience, one which is not 
accustomed to that, but in doing so we CAN'T and SHOULDN'T forget the 
old *NIX friends!!!
So we have to come up with clever ideas to hide the complexity to the 
desktop users, keeping a not-so-difficult path for the others.
If I ended up downloading 4 CD ISOs to find that the (popular GNU/Linux) 
tools I need aren't included, and I had to go to a thousand of extras 
and unofficial repositories to download my RPMs, or even started to 
download tar balls... then we are taking wrong decisions.

-- 
Mariano