Re: Fedora's way forward

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr thyrsus com>]

Matthias Saou:
> I think it's already all pretty simple... here's an example :
> 
> 1) Go to http://freshrpms.net/ with firefox on FC5 (the default)
> 2) Click on "click here"
> 3) Enter your root password when prompted
> 4) Run "Add/Remove Software" from the menu
> 
> That's pretty much it.

Remember, we're talking nontechnical users here.  If it's potentially 
this simple, good -- but finding the right stuff to install has to be
even simpler.

The user needs a button to push and a simple menu, and and interface
that *requires effectively no thought or decisions*.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>