My view is that Fedora should become a distribution suitable for regular users, that is a stable release distribution like Debian, openSUSE, and *buntus.
1. At present, Debian has few maintainers, which has as a result, many bugs not getting fixed.
2. openSUSE is OK I guess, but I think it has some UI bloat, like YaST 2.
Also YaST's graphical update program, is equivalent to "zypper --patch" terminal updater program , instead of "zypper up" (or "zypper dup"). That is, it installs only bugfixes, and not newer versions, available in the normal repositories.
I think this YaST's graphical update program, is the *only* openSUSE GUI update program, for all of the supported graphical environments, except GNOME (myself prefer LXDE).
This means, a user has to run "sudo zypper up" (or "sudo zypper dup", when using additional repositories) manually, to get the latest program versions.
3. Ubuntu is going its own way with Mir, and Unity 8.
So I think there is some space, for a Red Hat, home-user oriented distribution.
1. At present, Debian has few maintainers, which has as a result, many bugs not getting fixed.
2. openSUSE is OK I guess, but I think it has some UI bloat, like YaST 2.
Also YaST's graphical update program, is equivalent to "zypper --patch" terminal updater program , instead of "zypper up" (or "zypper dup"). That is, it installs only bugfixes, and not newer versions, available in the normal repositories.
I think this YaST's graphical update program, is the *only* openSUSE GUI update program, for all of the supported graphical environments, except GNOME (myself prefer LXDE).
This means, a user has to run "sudo zypper up" (or "sudo zypper dup", when using additional repositories) manually, to get the latest program versions.
3. Ubuntu is going its own way with Mir, and Unity 8.
So I think there is some space, for a Red Hat, home-user oriented distribution.
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