On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:01:07PM +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

> I don't think Fedora is for 'consumers'. Due to the policy to not 
> include many non-free components and missing apps from main repos, I 
> don't consider it a consumer OS. I tried it myself and also tried to put 
> it on average user's PCs but it refuse to work as a consumer OS should 
> work. I still can't boot Fedora 16 on my PC.
> 
> Yes, it is a superbly great developer OS.

I don't completely agree with you (and who says you can't install
additional non-free components on top of an OS?), but an even bigger
problem would then be the enterprise/business preview naming (although
I *do* install/maintain Fedora as a desktop for business customers,
as RHEL c.s. just contains too old software for some desktop users).

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