usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

On 15 August 2006, at 11:33, David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 07:50 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
>> My point was that we don't yet do this by default which means the
>> concerns still apply to any default case for Fedora.
>
> Perhaps what the world needs is a derived Fedora Core distribution
> tailored for the desktop. Same packages [1], few patches [2], just
> different behaviour out of the box more suited for the desktop.

We already have a "Desktop" option in the installer. I propose that  
that option configure things differently, instead of just juggling  
packages differently.

>
> Certainly a lot easier trying to explain the powers that be ... things
> like it's easier for servers admins to
>
>  chkconfig --level 345 network on
>  chckonfig --level 345 NetworkManager off
>
> instead of asking people installing a desktop to do
>
>  chkconfig --level 345 network off
>  chckonfig --level 345 NetworkManager on
>
> as the latter category of people is not really UNIX savy.
>
> Doing a derived distro for the desktop would allow us to care more  
> about
> the desktop without wasting time educating other stake holders in  
> Fedora
> that we need this or that change for the desktop to work well.
>
> Maybe the desktop needs a break from the rest of the distro. Just a
> thought.
>
>     David
>
> [1] : well, all the daily crob jobs like updatedb etc. plus much more
> would have to go :-)
>
> [2] : maybe that glibc patch to reread /etc/resolv.conf so we don't  
> have
> to run bind for NetworkManager in the default install :-)
>
>
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