The goal of fedora isn't to make it super easy for new users to Linux.
That's ubuntu's job. Fedora aims to be a free, usable OS. I agree with
some of your points but I don't think they are part of the goals of
Fedora.
Fedora isn't meant to compete with other operating systems. It aims to
provide an independent solution to users.
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On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Ashiqur Rahman Angel <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
It´s almost one year, I am with the Fedora community. In this one ye
ar, I met so many great people from Fedora community. I have visited
hundreds of forums, mailing lists. I meet so many people who uses F
edora (also who doesn´t). I have learned so many things from them.
Some of them are happy using Fedora and some them are not. And I thi
nk, as a community member, it´s my responsibility to inform you guys
about some issues that I think, why people doesnt like to use Fedor
a or switching to other distros. And something, that we need to fix.
1. Need to include RPM Fusion with Fedora 11 default installation
(but not activated, like Fedora test repo or raw hide, as we don´t i
nclude proprietary software). If this is not possible (may be becaus
e of some legal issue), then I´ll say, we need a working GUI solutio
n to install RPM Fusion. According to RPM Fusion they explained a GU
I solution to install the repo, but most of the time, it doesnt work
at all (I myself, tested thousands time, also so many people there
has, who tried, I searched for the solution, everyone give me CLI so
lution). And KPackage Kit can´t install it. So we need a solution th
at will work for GNOME and KDE both.
2. Need a GUI solution to install nVidia and ATI driver, that will
automatically install the appropriate driver (Ubuntu has a GUI
Hardware Drivers options that automatically download and install the
driver, also they have Envy, its another GUI solution)
3. Need a GUI solution to install all kind of proprietary Multimedia
codecs (Ubuntu has ubuntu-restricted-extras, they simply select it
from package manager, and it installs all kind of codecs including
JAVA)
4. Need a complete GUI solution to install softwares offline from
cache (ofcourse if it can fix the dependency) or DVD Media.
5. There has a very easy way to install a rpm package from CLI (one
single package, that has not any dependency issue or if it has, it´s
possible to install the package by ignoring it). But from Fedora 9,
GUI double click rpm install doesnt work at all. So, we need a GUI
solution of it.
6. Need to add CD/DVD repo with Fedora 11 default installation, so
people can use DVD to install softwares.
7. From /etc/yum.conf we need to edit keepcache=0 to 1 as default.
So people can use the cache to install software later or to some
other PC.
Many of you will say, why we are following Ubuntu? Well, I´ll say, n
o, we are not following them. This is the truth, what users want. An
d many of you will think, this ideas are stupid, but truth is If thi
s issues we can fix, for sure, so many people will start using Fedor
a. My apologies, if I am wrong anywhere.
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