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Fedora's Market
In response to Karsten's post - http://iquaid.org/2008/05/21/is-fedora-for-newbies/
Last year I posted a similar question to the Fedora Advisory Board - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00137.html but got no real answer out of it. So here's what I'd propose:
Fedora changes the world so that others may live in it.
Fedora is a lot of things to a lot of people. The recent xorg thread on fedora-devel was painful but the fact is anyone complaining that Fedora doesn't support nvidia is just in the wrong spot. But again, Fedora's goals are very clear in regards to open source software. We may not have met those goals yet, but we're working on them.
I've always seen Fedora as sort of a laboratory where really cool stuff happens. Thats primarly why I got involved. As someone who works full time for Fedora I spend very very little time on the operating system itself. Instead I play a support role. One thing thats nice about that is I get to see the process happen. Fedora (the project) a great place where very cool stuff happens. It's unique in that respect and I think that fact gets overlooked quite a bit.
Ask yourself, as I do, does this - http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9950150-16.html sound like a noob OS? I don't think so. But does that mean noobs can't use it? No. Unfortunately the term "Noob" gets argued like its just one type of person and thats just not the case. I think plenty of noobs come to Fedora and it is a very successful operating system for them. No one can make an OS for everyone so the question remains. Who is Fedora for?
Perhaps Fedora the OS is a byproduct of Fedora the Project. We're all here to change the world and our vehical is Open Source. We're making the whole field better by being early adopters and taking the risks we take. The Fedora Project is about changing the world, Fedora the OS is just how we're going to do it
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| Date: | May 22nd, 2008 10:14 pm (UTC) |
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Hi Mike,
I agree. I've been using RHL/Fedora for 12 years now. For my primary OS for probably 9 of those years. In the last couple of weeks having been on the peripheral I've finally become a contributor by maintaining a couple of packages. I work in enterprise hosting where I use derivatives of Fedora and their competitors on a daily basis. I see myself like in a support role/
Around the office we get to choose what OS we run. I've always run Fedora. I have friends and colleagues that run others variants of Linux and OSes, Windows, ubuntu, Gentoo etc. They sit there and curse and I just sit there and work... over the time they ask what I use and why it just works with my wireless, my new 3G card, the exchange server..... I reply... I'm not sure why its just works.... its just Fedora. I hand them an installer CD, help them with a few quirks and away they go.... happy! I love installing it for friends over WindowsXP.... one CD and all their stuff works.... no shunting around drivers for eth, wlan, display on a usb stick.... shove the CD in anda away you go..... the easiest OS to install on commodity hardware!
I use it because it just works.... and because it just works is why is will change the world! Quietly yes... but I;m slowly converting the office... slow and steady wins the race :-)
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Meetings/Minutes/IRCLog20080306
The Marketing group came up with what I think is a pretty reasonable definition for our target audience: "FOSS enthusiasts, developers, and remixers." I think that "enthusiast" encompasses a pretty broad range and doesn't make any requirements for skill level. But a "FOSS enthusiast," to me, is very different from "someone who wants something for nothing." And that's a good differentiator between the consumer and the contributor, to me. |
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