"Default" spin of Fedora

[Juan Camilo Prada]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:59 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Juan Camilo Prada
> <juankprada at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:47 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> >> >> The "Fedora Desktop" spin is GNOME.
> >> >
> >> > That's kinda the problem. ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Seriously, I think the naming also sucks, but it is not a good reason to make
> >> > the bias even worse.
> >> >
> >> >> Let's not confuse our users with holy wars.
> >> >
> >> > What you call holy wars, I call freedom of choice.
> >>
> >> I say live it alone Kevin. I don't see this as a battle we are going
> >> to win. All discussions to do with Fedora always implicitly leave out
> >> KDE.
> >>
> >> That's how its always been. I thought merging Extras and Core would be
> >> the end of that, but I was wrong.
> >>
> >> This is a lost cause, that probably only pisses people off.
> >
> > Again... lets stop the discussion about KDE vs Gnome we are not going
> > anywhere with that... As long as the official desktop is Gnome i think
> > we should stick to it and not to a SPIN (no offense to KDE sig or any
> > KDE fan).
> >
> > The decision to leave DVD media out of the equation is due to the fact
> > that it requires a lot more bandwidth to be downloaded in a considerable
> > time than a live media, and also not everybody is able to use a DVD in
> > their computer, it also has a lot more software than an average user
> > would probably need which seems like a waste of resources for a new user
> > to download such a big media just to end up using what the Desktop Live
> > media probably has.
> 
> 
> What is your definition of the average Fedora user?

Notice i never said "average Fedora user" i just said an "average user"
and i meant to an average computer user, somebody who uses the computer
to surf the web, read emails, listen some music and probably (in the
case of fedora) someone willing to know what this is all about


-- 
Juan Camilo Prada <jprada at fedoraproject.org>