Where are we going in the Fedora development?

[John Summerfield]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:07, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Once again I want to share something but don't want to start a rant.
>
> I finally got FC3 installed and have serious questions as to where
> this Fedora Development is going. Are changes being made for good
> reason or just to be different? Is there good reason to have two
> panels on the screen (at top and bottom) instead of one, two

That's Gnome 2.8. Compare with Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. It's a single-CD 
install (but essentiall all of Debian downloadable after installation).

It also does some things better than FC does.

> essentially equivalent menus under different icons, logout hidden in a
> different place, etc.
> My reaction to having changes made in resolv.conf disappear after a
> reboot was not a positive one. Luckily I had a hint of why this was
> happening in a previous posting.

dhcp has done that for ever. pppd has too, but that's configurable.


>
> I could go on with changes like udev and /media in place of /mnt but
/media is LSB compliance. Debian does it too. Previously RH and Debian 
differed.

> you get the idea. Are these changes caused by a overwhelming goal that
> trumps the confusion they cause.
>
> In the back of my mind I would like Windows users to switch to Linux seeing
> it can be presented in as friendly appearance as Windows is to them.

Windows changes too. Get new Windows, likely you'll need new apps. Sometimes, 
get new Windows SP & need new apps.



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Cheers
John