On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Lynn Dixon <boodaddy@gmail.com> wrote:
to me Workstation conveys a machine that is destined to do some sort of work, or be used in the production of something.  My company laptop is my "Workstation" as I use it mainly for getting work done.  I don't use it for personal use (OK, --rarely-- use it for personal stuff), and I have a different work flow when using it.  However, on my personal machines, I refer to them as my "desktop" for my big box computer, and my "laptop" for my laptop.  Hardly any work gets done on these, save for personal "fun" stuff.

In the essence of what Fedora Workstation is targeting, I would think that the name Workstation is best suited.  We are targeting Developers and Sysadmins who get work done, much like the work I do on my company laptop "workstation".

+1 to keeping workstation. I was a part of some of the relevant conversations at Flock, and IIRC the intention at the time was that workstation would be for users with workstation use cases: developers, sysadmins, content creators, etc.

IMO the workstation PRD doesn't deviate from that significantly.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I'm intentionally breaking the threading here since I think it's a top-level
topic. The following is from Christian:

> 1. The name is not important here, we might as well have called the
> product working group the Desktop Working Group or the Client Working
> Group. The name workstation was chosen mostly to emphasize that technical
> users are of importance to us. So please do not get hung up on the name.

I agree, and also, I think the direction has gone a little differently from
what we were originally thinking about with the "Workstation" name. As I
noted elsewhere, things going differently from my first thoughts is the
process working. :)

If there's going to be a name change, I think it's probably better somewhat
sooner rather than later. It might be a good idea to talk with Fedora
Marketing too. So... yeah. Open floor on this idea. Does "workstation"
really convey what this product will be all about? What would be better?
Plain old "Fedora Desktop" is still on the table, for sure. "Fedora Bob" is
probably a bad idea....


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