Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 18:26:25 UTC 2006


On 7/9/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> >
> > <sigh>
> >
> > Today I had a refrehsing drink in the sun with a friend of mine and we
> > had a discussion about Fedora and about how despite Fedora being GREAT
> > Ubuntu seems to be way more popular.
> >
> > One of the things he mentioned was the negative tone on the Fedora
> > mailinglist, I disagreed. But reading this: he is right. We should drop
> > the negative tone.
> >
> > Neither Core nor Extras do _NOT_ sucks at all. Yes certain things are
> > better in Extras then Core, but we have it easier, they have all the
> > _really_ _hard_ packages. And yes even we are not perfect, but both core
> > and extras are pretty good if not excellent in the case of Extras.
> >
> > So not perfect, but most certainly not sucking at all!
> >
> > Talking about this negative attitude, we need to improve our self image
> > as a community and we need to work on our image to the rest of the worl
> > too, time for a Fedora Marketing team?
> >
>
> Awareness also helps. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing. All help
> is most welcome.

I don't think it's an awareness issue, I think it is more a polish
issue.  I've known people to choose ubuntu over fedora just because
the extra function keys on their laptop work with ubuntu and not
fedora.




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