Brief diary of an F-7 installation
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 05:28:44 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> I haven't seen any community poll or
>>>> feedback mechanism for what the most people would prefer as the
>>>> default.
>>>
>>> Community != democracy. Fedora in particular is more of a
>>> meritocratic system.
>>
>> What does that mean in terms of equivalent systems like desktop
>> environments? Does something 'invented here' automatically assume
>> more merit than someone else's project? Or does the guy doing the
>> work of
>> editing the file get his choice regardless of the effect on end users?
>
> It means that developers who are involved with the project more would
> pick the choices that based on their development focus and expertise
> among one of the parameters.
I'm still missing how 'development focus' as a basis for foisting a
default choice off on unsuspecting new users differs from that political
bias you denied earlier. Surely no one who plans on having more than
one subdirectory would voluntarily pick a file manager that leaves an
open window at every level if an alternative were presented in an equal
context during installation.
> Fedora developers who are focusing on KDE have their own special
> interest group that has weekly meetings and have their own spin of
> Fedora that is available as part of the latest release.
>
> With Fedora 7, all the tools that the project uses to go from source to
> release is available publicly and you can create your own custom spins,
> mix and match packages from Fedora and other sources so you aren't bound
> to what the project chooses. Have fun.
Why would a new user know/care about this instead of just going back to
whatever OS they used before when they get annoyed with nautilus behavior?
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Les Mikesell
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