On 2014-01-18 05:21, Brendan Jones wrote:
> I'm starting to think that there is little point having a
spin at all.
> My original idea was that having the spin would encourage more users
> to use Fedora and as a result create some kind of community (and
> hopefully attract more upstream developers).
>
> This hasn't happened. I'm too busy to blog, promote, berate the
> goodness of the Jam etc. Maybe someone else is. Maybe we are not
> promoting ourselves enough? I don't know. Maybe we are being lazy.
I am a Fedora user, and I use Fedora to make music. But for me personally
the Fedora Jam spin is not my choice. On my main computer I use the
standard Fedora desktop distribution with Gnome3, on my EeePC netbook I
use a lightweight LXDE spin. Then on top of these I install all the music
related packages that I need from the official Fedora, RPMFusion and
PlanetCCRMA repositories, including the kernel-rt package.
Why would I use Fedora Jam? I don't even like KDE.
The good thing is that, from the moment people started to think about a
special Musicians Spin several interesting packages, requested by members
of this mailinglist, have been added to the official Fedora repositories.
What I would like to see is that I could do something like:
# sudo yum groupinstall "Fedora Jam"
to install a nice selection of must-have music production software,
like what is now in the Fedora Jam spin, after installing the Fedora
version of my choice.
Well, I know, it's really easy for me to write down wishes and feature
requests. The real heroes are people like Brendan and others who have done
so much of the hard work.
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MT