Re: getting the ball rolling

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Mikael Hallendal">

> > * Understand and define your audience
> 
> I see two target groups:
> 
> 1) Users that just don't care about having to tweak everything and spend
>    hours in config files just to get there desktops working.
> 
> 2) Application level developers (these also is part of group 1) that
>    wants to develop applications for the desktop. And gets a nice 
>    desktop with all the development tools they will need to get there 
>    work done.

There's a third group that fits in pretty well with the first (I'm not
convinced that the second is all that useful, given the abundance of Free
development platforms we have already).

3) Corporate users, who have very little control over what's installed on
   their machines, and their administrators, who want complete control over
   the machines and how they operate.

I think this might fit in very nicely with the first user type. With the
flick of a few switches (and probably an install option), the machine could
be set up to authenticate from LDAP, mount home directories from NFS, and
generally integrate nicely into a networked environment as a 'slim' client
(running the apps, but everything else is across the network).

Perhaps it's just a permutation of my current interests, but I think this
would be an incredible target/product. All of the point 1 things apply to
this, too.

- Jeff

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