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| 2019-10-16 |
Matthew Miller talks about 15 years of Fedora |
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The Fedora distribution is celebrating its 15th annivsary this year. While the project has gone through several changes over the years, and a name change, it continues to be a cutting-edge testing ground for new software. Matthew Miller has answered some questions from TechRepublic about where Fedora has been, the future of its release cycle, Flatpak, and growing pains that come from adopting new technologies quickly. "Both GNOME 3 and systemd landed in the same release. Basically, we lost half of our users doing that. Or, at least half of our users didn't upgrade from Fedora 14, and we stopped getting growth. That was a pretty bad situation, and there's plenty of ways for blame to go around. But, I think just absorbing all that change, all at once, is hard on people.
That's a lesson learned. If you look at the GNOME user interface, if you go back and install GNOME 3.0 and compare it to 3.32, it's a very different experience. The designers working on GNOME, despite some reputation, actually do listen to feedback and adjust. They really do want to provide a user polished experience.
I think that if GNOME goes to 4.0, it is not going to be a radical redesign, like that. It's going to be architectural shifts under the hood. In one of your earlier interviews, someone mentioned concern about Wayland, and the split between the desktop and the shell compositor. If your shell crashes under [X.Org], it automatically restarts, you barely notice it. If you crash under Wayland, it brings things down. That actually requires a big architectural change to fix, that might be GNOME 4. That isn't necessarily something that means that the user interface has been run into a blender and changed all around just for the sake of it." The rest of the interview can be found on the TechRepublic website.
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