On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 11:32 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 01:30:04PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> I think the confusion arises from the term "product". I've no idea
what
> it's supposed to mean. OTOH "spin" isn't very clear to the newbie
user
> either. That said, some such term to indicate typical configurations of
Naming things is famously hard; I agree — we could to better here. Any
suggestions? I would also like to find better way to distinguish the
spins like KDE desktop, where there is full QA and a number of
dedicated people, from those which get minimal effort and often have
serious problems that no one fixes.
In other industries "model" distinguishes one variant from another:
Fedora model=server
Fedora model=workstation-Gnome
Fedora model=workstation-KDE
The above are well-supported. Then we have:
Fedora model=workstation, desktop=LXDE
etc.
which exist but are not the main focus at present (though they might
graduate to workstation-LXDE or whatever in some later release).
I don't expect that to please everyone but I'll throw it out there.
poc