Proposal: Split Fedora into sub-distributions

[Casey Dahlin]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Emmanuel Seyman
> <emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>   
>> Please stop calling people who want things to work out of the box idiots.
>> They're not.
>>     
>
>
> I'm a certified genius... and I'm officially speaking for the entire
> genius subculture when I say i/we (for we share a hive mind to some
> extent)  like things to work when I/we take them out of the box. That
> way when I/we take then apart and try to put the back together I know
> whether or not I've succeeded in my goal by using the initial
> functionality as a baseline reference.
>
>
> -jef"Or do i mean certifiable"spaleta
>
>   
Certainly, but that's not to say there isn't an "idiot" class of users 
we need to worry about.

It isn't so much people who want things to just work. Its people who 
need to be protected from their own computer. Its an interesting 
question: do we want to pursue the same demographic as Nigerian scam 
artists? People who approach their machines the way early cave men must 
have first approached fire? People who, in the new age of ecommerce and 
scam artists, are posing a very real, tangible danger to themselves when 
they approach their computers?

If so, what kind of OS serves this person? Is something more like the 
Sugar interface appropriate? What can we do to help?

I think one good thing that could come of all this is better marketing 
and advertising of spins. We need more spins to be promoted as heavily 
as our main product. That way a spin that knows how to reach a niche 
audience can develop a community of its own, rather than simply existing 
quietly in Fedora's shadow.

--CJD