On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:10:00PM +0200, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
> The last event that I attended, I got a bunch of questions
regarding Fedora
> usage on various "netbooks".
>
> I believe that this is a marketing problem more than it is an engineering
> problem, because we have a variety of Fedora spins (including the default
> one) that would work fine on Netbooks.
>
> I think we need a simple page -- /wiki/Netbooks -- that offers some best
> practices/tips/troubleshooting/etc. for people who are using Fedora on
> different Netbooks.
I also had a lot of these questions at LSM. It turned out people were
more looking for a spin dedicated to netbooks (see UNR), they didn't
really want to know that Gnome runs perfectly fine with a small
display.
Last time I checked, we didn't have such a dedicated desktop
environment in our repositories, did I miss something ?
This is a great point Mathieu. As a matter of fact, one of the calls
I got about Fedora 11 on a netbook was from a certain prominent
executive, who installed it on his HP 2133 and said it was the first
distro of any kind where he could read the screen properly.
Not having a netbook, I'm wondering where currently our user
experience suffers, and where we can do better -- although that's not
really a Marketing topic per se.
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