Brief diary of an F-7 installation

[Les Mikesell]

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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