I actually agrees with you Gordan.
I prefer to make my own partitions other than the one NOOBS made.
But NOOBS is a good way to "get a foot inside the door" in the Raspberry
world. No need for other distributions to get ahead of Redsleeve ;)
And if Fedora(RedHat....) refuses the things you wrote then it is good
that people have other choices like Redsleeve,CentOS etc.
BR,
Bjarne
On 21-06-2015 11:34, Gordan Bobic wrote:
I don't think the target market for RedSleeve is "elite". It just
isn't for users that need hand holding and feel out of their depth
when having to use dd, tar, ifconfig/ip and yum on the command line
and sorting out the most basic configuration tasks themselves.
As for your idea that it might lead to more
developers/helpers/testers, realistically, people who aren't up to
such a basic standard of Linux usage aren't typically going to be able
to help with most of those things. This isn't intended to come across
as elitist - it is merely a statement of the obvious, that the few of
us maintaining it don't really have enough spare hours in a day to
help with generic issues that aren't specific to RS but would cause
the user the same problem on Fedora or EL on x86.
Having said that, none of this is a reason to make getting things up
and running more difficult. If that can be achieved in a consistent
and uniform way, then that's awesome. Unfortunately, that's really
difficult when most of the hardware is very different, up to and
including the bootloaders and available working kernels. Just look at
the situation with Fedora ARM - they flat out refuse to even consider
supporting any hardware that isn't supported by the mainline kernel,
and have dropped support for everything before ARMv7 in order to make
the support scope manageable. CentOS are doing the same thing with
their armv7hl build. In that regard, RS supports far greater range of
hardware, but the price of this is that the user is left to their own
devices to figure out out how to get the RS userspace running with
whatever kernel their device shipped with.
Gordan
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