Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> The reason for Fedora is to find out what things work. But why must
> Fedora work for everyone? 

Who's going to learn how to administer RHEL for their servers if they 
use some other distro with a wildly different management style on their 
own desktop?

> The lack of support for your position would tend to indicate that
> Fedora is meeting the needs of most of the people here.

I'd categorize it as saying it doesn't meet the needs of most people who 
could be using Linux as their desktop machine.  The people 'here' are a 
small subset who obviously are more tolerant and willing to put up with 
breakage.  Having to resort to mailing lists to get things working at 
all or recover after updates isn't something we should consider mainstream.

> We all agree
> that it is not meeting your needs. But why should Fedora have to
> change to meet your needs is the change is not going to be what most
> of the users here want?

They don't 'have' to change, and I'm not demanding any change but 
everyone should be realistic about the usefulness of the disto.  If a 
goal of fedora is to encourage people to become familiar with RedHat 
style system administration (and I think it should be, since this makes 
the path to RHEL easier), they are not making a product that a large 
audience can use for real work and are thus limiting this exposure.

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   Les Mikesell
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