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A distribution for noobs?

by kanarip — last modified May 24, 2008 08:13 PM
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To Mike McGrath's and Karsten Wade's blog posts, I just wanted to say:

Some people choose Fedora as their hobby or even just operating system for the reasons that make Fedora Fedora. Other people choose Fedora because Fedora is what Fedora is -and might become part of the first group after a while, but then again could become valuable contributors from where they are right then as well.

In the ignorance-is-bliss category, there's people who might just choose Fedora because Fedora just so happens to be whatever Fedora is to them, and then start shouting it doesn't do what they expect it to do, obviously overdoing on the ignorance part -causing us to shift our focus again and again with discussions about making it easier to install codecs, linking to third party repositories, firmware, etc. while in fact the real problem remains -non-free software. I'm sure trying to gain understanding here is less valuable then continuing the work and maintaining our focus. Having said that, of course there's other audiences in our society where gaining an understanding is the primary focus in way more valuable ways.

Then, in the, substantially overdoing the ignorance, dont-know-dont-care category there's people that might choose another operating system or Linux distribution, but who cares.

Which of these groups would be Fedora's Market?

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