On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 15:11:52 -0500, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 And so what. That isn't the distro it is trying to be. That is more of an Ubuntu goal. > 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. Apparently it isn't either a major goal or that they think the subset of users who might become sysadmins is heavily weighted towards people who like a fast moving distro such as Fedora. Or perhaps they feel a distro such as what you suggest would cut into their sales of Redhat support.
