Leaving? ( AKA Fedora Target Audience)

[Harry Smith]

I think this is an interesting discussion that has been raised 
several times before.  So far I can see two camps:

1. Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.
2. Care about the" less expert" users.  I wonder how many of the FC 
users are new to linux and want to learn linux.  I know that is why I 
started with Fedora.

The "full speed" groups seems to be of the opinion that NV and ATI 
will solve the problem if Fedora adopts the Xorg 7.1.  Frankly, I 
think this is a bit naive.   ATI & NV have need incentive to move 
forward for Fedora.  If RH did the upgrade that broke the NV and ATI 
drivers something would happen.  (BTW when is RH planning to move to 
Xorg 7.1, I have no idea how to find that out.)

But the "full speed" has done this before and  FC survived. Look at 
the problems when FC 5 first deployed and the less experienced users 
could not add packages if they were not attached to the Internet 
until they learned how to fake out yum.   If this is the final path, 
I hope that people on the forum will be more understanding than when 
FC 5 first deployed.

I would like to remind the "full speed" group of another clause in 
the objectives for Fedora;

	Emphasize usability and a "just works" philosophy in selecting 
default configuration and designing features provided by Fedora.

This seems to be broken with the deployment of Xorg in FC5.

Let the Xorg 7.1 be part of FC6.  Use the Wiki to include how 
to  upgrade to Xorg 7.1.


Right or wrong. most  outside users (and potentially some inside 
users ) see Fedora as the testing grounds for the next release of 
RedHat.  To alienate them is not a good thing.


Harry