Fedora 8 review
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 19:01:59 UTC 2007
On Dec 23, 2007 10:37 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I listened to the whole thing, and all the did was complain about how it
> >> looked. The theme, the layout for the installer, how the options were
> >> presented to you to partition the drive, etc.
>
> Arthur Pemberton:
> > Then I guess we listened to different clips. Because all what you
> > mentioned there was just about Anaconda, and not even about the rest
> > of Fedora which they did in fact talk about.
>
> They spent quite a lot of time on that, but the overall comment was
> about how they thought it *looked*. Overall, it doesn't look ready,
> etc.
>
> Whilst other things got *some* mention, all the way through their little
> radio show, that was the repeated comment regarding just about
> everything.
In response to their review a bit...
I would love to see a more interesting, anaconda: changing the look
might help to, but I'm not much of a designs, however Anaconda does
look plain, I just don't happen to have a problem with a plain look.
If anyone is really interested in my idea(s), I may be able to put
together a flow chart.
However, that aside, I agree almost completely with their view that
Fedora has a bit of an identity crisis. Consider this question... what
is Fedora for? Here are the responses I come up with if I were to
answer this:
* testing ground for RHEL/CentOS
* testing ground for new software in general
* pure open source workstation
* for those that happen to like Fedora
And as you may notice, that last one is a bit recursive.
I think it is fair to say that Fedora is not for the following for
different reasons:
* production server
* desktop of even an average linux user
* embedded systems
I happen to use Fedora as my primary desktop myself, which easily
meets more of my multimedia needs that my Windows XP laptop.
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