While I sit here viewing everyones' responses to this subject about Fedora's description, I have only few reasons to see the it would not be an "alternative" to said proprietary operating systems. Thus far since the eariest stages of GUI driven Linux; only gamers, flash developers and like would not see the os as becoming a strong "alternative os" meaning without emulation.
Fedora is what you make it to be. , nothing more and nothing less. In short "It's an OS the allows you to express yourself creatively as an artist as well as a techie.
-Valik ------Original Message------ From: Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) Sender: fedora-marketing-list-bounces@redhat.com To: fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com ReplyTo: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base Subject: Re: Why would I want Fedora? Sent: May 15, 2009 10:44
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
"Fedora is a free alternative to proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows and provides a easy and powerful graphical environment, office suite, games and more. It is a secure and virus-free experience with brand new releases full of major improvements every six months all for free."
Having had a few hours to think, maybe alternative may not be best.
How about; "Fedora is similar to proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows and provides an easy and powerful graphical environment, office suite, games and more. It is a secure and virus-free experience with brand new releases full of major improvements every six months all for free (both in terms of cost, and ability to change the underlying code to suit your own needs)."
Frank
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 17:01, valik@valikszekely.com wrote:
While I sit here viewing everyones' responses to this subject about Fedora's description, I have only few reasons to see the it would not be an "alternative" to said proprietary operating systems. Thus far since the eariest stages of GUI driven Linux; only gamers, flash developers and like would not see the os as becoming a strong "alternative os" meaning without emulation.
When one says that Fedora is not an alternative to Windows, it doesn't mean that Fedora is inferior, and thus not yet a suitable alternative.
What we mean is that Fedora doesn't aim to be an alternative to Windows. Instead, Fedora has clear goals.
If anything, Fedora would be aiming to make Windows an alternative to Linux ;)
Regards,
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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
valik@valikszekely.com wrote:
While I sit here viewing everyones' responses to this subject about Fedora's description, I have only few reasons to see the it would not be an "alternative" to said proprietary operating systems. Thus far since the eariest stages of GUI driven Linux; only gamers, flash developers and like would not see the os as becoming a strong "alternative os" meaning without emulation.
Fedora is what you make it to be. , nothing more and nothing less. In short "It's an OS the allows you to express yourself creatively as an artist as well as a techie.
+ also do not mention Fedora as an "alternative OS". May be "Fedora is a FREE OS comes with lots of FREE software that allows you to use it at will, for daily work, Internet and Email..." Something along this line. Hope you get what i meant here.
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