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On 09/09/2014 07:46 AM, Christian Schaller wrote:
Hi everyone,
Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team
build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora
Workstation release.
Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it
out to these two
lists for further review and suggestions.
Christian
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Fedora Workstation Marketing
The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the
Fedora
Community. Instead of seeing ourselves primarily as passive packagers
of any
software we manage to find we are now instead picking the best
components out
there and doing a lot of of work to integrate and polish them,
presenting you
with something you will feel is a much more polished and targeted
product
than what you seen before from the Fedora community. We want our
desktop operating
system to solve your problems, not be your problem.
Easy access to all your Software
The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is our Software installer
application,
or
our appstore if you like.. It provides a modern and fast interface
for
finding all
any kind of desktop software for your Fedora Workstation. In Fedora
21
we are using
the new hawkeye backend which will ensure a responsive and fast user
experience and our
packagers have worked ardently with the relevant upstreams to greatly
improve the
amount of applications that provide the needed information to
populate
the Software
installer.
Improvements to the Terminal application
We want to make sure developers have a great experience and we do know
that a
strong
terminal application is a core part of that. Due to this we have
worked to integrate
a set of new features in the terminal like support for transparent
backgrounds, automatic
title updates which will make identifying different terminals easier,
allow you do easily
toggle all system keybindings on and off in the terminal and in the
GNOME desktop overview
you can search for terminal running processes by name.
Experimental Wayland Support
We have a usable Wayland session available in Fedora Workstation 21.
Wayland is the
new and
exciting technology that will power the linux desktops going forward.
With Fedora Workstation 21
we offer you a unique opportunity to trial this technology and see
how
well your applications work
with it or to start experimenting with making your applications take
advantage of some of the new
abilities Wayland will enable. A lot of the core Wayland development
has been done by Fedora
Workstation contributors so this is your chance to try out this new
exciting technology straight
from the source.
Developer Assistant
As a developer we recognize that you need to be able to set up a host
of different
development
environments in an easy and straightforward manner. In Fedora
Workstation we offer the
Developer Assistant to help with this task. With the aid of the
Developer Assistant you can
quickly set up development environments for a long range of language
runtimes and IDEs. And
thanks to its integration of the new Fedora Software Collections
multiple versions of the
different languages are available to fit with your business
requirements.
Ease of installation
We want the installation of the Fedora Workstation to be as
straightforward and
simple as possible.
For the Fedora Workstation we have distilled this down to selecting
the layout of your physical
media and then pressing install. Or if you want it even easier just
let the installer choose the
disk layout for you. We also realize that the future of installations
is not optical disks which
is why we ship with an easy to use tool for creating a bootable USB
stick.
Toolkit integration
You have a job to do and want to use whatever tools that let you get
that job done.
The Fedora Workstation
recognize that which is why we have been hard at work making sure
that
applications
using as many toolkits as possible feel as native as possible in your
Fedora Workstation. Be that the
new themeing for Qt which makes applications written using that
toolkit feel native or the ability
to run HTML5 webservices in a chromeless window, making them feel
like
a natural extension to your desktop.
HiDPI Support
Technology never stands still and as a software developer you are used
to using the
best technology available.
Which is why we have spent a lot of time and effort on making sure
that we support the new
generation of HiDPI displays well. Phoronix recently called our
desktop the best of HiDPI.
Exciting roadmap
This Fedora Workstaiton release is not the end, it is the beginning of
a new era
for Fedora on the desktop. We have an
exciting roadmap lined up aiming to bring a range of exciting new
technologies to the linux desktop like containers,
smarter virtual machines, better development tools, more web
integration and so on. So if you want to be part of the
future of the linux desktop be sure to get on board now!
I had a thought churning around while following this thread; there isn't
a most appropriate place to reply so I'll go back to the beginning :)
I had a vision of Fedora Workstation as being made for developers in two
contexts. First, targeting developers by providing a functional and
reliable enviroment for their workstation. Second, providing a target
*for* developers by making the environment more stable, providing stable
APIs, and generally giving developers a platform that they can expect
their applications to predictably coexist with in ways I don't have the
expertise to list out :P
Am I making a bad inference here? If not, and being a target for
developers' own products is a product-level goal, the idea should be
developed in the marketing copy.
- --
- -- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize(a)fedoraproject.org
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