[Mageia-discuss] Mageia's strategy

[david]

  That is just what I wanted to point out : all Linux users don't have 
the same objectives.
What will be Mageia's one?
I am a long date user of Unix (more than 20years) and Linux (since the 
beginning), mostly in command line, but I think that with light desktops 
like Gnome or E17 , we can break the mercantile (commercial) way of 
thinking the computer, and offer all Linux advantages to people who are 
not aware of other solutions. For example I have in my customers , old 
people who have some basic needs (like 90% of computer users) : 
internet, mail , be in touch through IRC, skype or other tools with 
their families. Why should we let Microsoft and computers vendors sell 
them expensive tools that they don't need? Linux is able to satisfy 
their needs at a low cost and cost is often a problem for old people 
with small pensions.
Personnaly I don't like the thinking of being a small community not 
opened on the external world, and not looking what is good and well done 
by Apple, Ubuntu, Fedora and so on. I think that for these people there 
are already good distros like LFS, Sourcemage or Slackware. And Mandriva 
is not the one. It seems that Mandriva has began to look for end users 
needs but has not finished the job (for example english sentences and 
words in locale version during installation, no own identity in the look 
with the blue theme inherited from w95...).
Doing nothing and staying in our small circle will encourage Microsoft 
and co to continue distributing sh**t to people, produce endlessly more 
powerfull computers for nothing... I don't want to participate to this 
movement and want to make proselytism for open source.
Another word from microsoft users: they did not choose their distro, it 
was imposed to them.
Today there is only one distro having really working in this way. I 
would like to see Mandriva to do so, but it won't...
So will Mageia do?
Wil it be a distro, form you , for me or or both?


Le 26/09/2010 19:12, P. Christeas a écrit :
> On Sunday 26 September 2010, david wrote:
>> For example my wish would be a generalist distro (like ubuntu) for
>> newbies and/or microsoft users,...
> Let me rant in a rather non-polite tone:
> why does *every* Linux distro have to be for Windows users?? Why does every
> product need to be targeted at stupid people? (obvious answer: there is lots
> of them)
>
> Can't we please keep building a distro for *Linux* users?
> If people choose Linux, they shall obviously like Linux, not Windoze. It's
> like we are trying to serve a vanilla ice cream to people who prefer
> chocolate. Can we, please, keep making vanilla taste like vanilla? We had been
> good at that, some years ago.
>
> Lets see again what features had made us like linux in the first place:
>   - It used to be light and fast. (not like KDE4 or win Vista)
>   - It used to be able to run for months, even years without a crash or need to
> reboot.. (not like knotify4 and pulseaudio)
>   - It used to do all the things we wanted, with plethora of tools (not like
> Gnome or Apple)
>   - It used to allow us to configure either through gui tools, or through
> cmdline and text files (not like the modern "desktop" trends).
>   - It could connect to the network without the need of a GUI server/client
> (not like networkmanager)
>   - It was free from closed-source applications (not like Android)
>   - It had allowed us to have a continuous desktop (+home) for many years,
> including all the software upgrades, without need to format our disks every 6
> months (not like Ubuntu or some KDE4 apps).
>
> So, if we try to sell "better Windows", we'd better just give up and let
> Micro$oft do their job, they are better at it.
>
> On the other, marketing-wise, side, when we try to re-invent Windows, we just
> admit that our Linux vision was flawed. And, of course, we let down all the
> people that had believed our promises about Linux.
>
> </rant>
>
>
>
>
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