On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:22 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to
vote.
The changes towards a distribution that attracts people who live in
the moment happened a while back, and has been building momentum for
quite some time. Trying to erect barriers now is not going to help but
make it so nothing exists afterwords. The things that can be done are:
A) get out of the way, B) go with the flow, or C) figure out what you
can build on top of it. [I am looking at option C]
> We've found our niche, but chasing away our previous niche (and having
> less users show up in our tracking mechanism for it) It's getting to
> the point where me, as a long time Fedora developer and sometimes
> leader, is not enjoying using Fedora any more. Every update run can
What was our previous niche? That is what people seemed so hard to
ever quantify beyond knowing "what it isn't". The people I know who
are running Ubuntu now instead of RHL or Fedora are doing it because
that distribution 'fills in the blanks' for them that RHL/Fedora never
seemed to answer. It has a vision, it has a single voice where they
feel it is needed. Fedora has never been that. (heck even RHL was
never that as you couldn't get any of the RH developers to agree on
much :)).
I think the RHL niche was:
1. reasonably current
2. updated to a new release every 6months
3. supported for security/errata for 3yrs
4. free
-sv