Fedora 7

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 4 21:22:50 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:

> Yes, Fedora Desktop and Fedora Server will probably be the official Fedora 
> Project spins of Fedora.  Fedora KDE is the proof of concept, perhaps widely 
> used "community contributed" spin of Fedora.  That's why (IMHO) its named 
> specifically with "KDE" whereas the official spin is just "Desktop".  If you 
> don't know what "KDE" or "GNOME" is, you wouldn't know to choose it.  Desktop 
> is a good generic name that is understandable.  However if you already know 
> and prefer KDE, you know to get the KDE spin.

It would be consistent to have something like

Fedora Desktop (GNOME edition) and
Fedora Desktop (KDE edition)

It's confusing and discriminatory to call one of the spins as the 
desktop when you have more (which is likely to increase) than one 
desktop oriented spins.

Rahul




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