Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org







----- Mensaje original -----
De: Andreas Nilsson <andreas andreasn se>
Para: marketing-list <marketing-list gnome org>
CC: 
Enviado: Sábado 31 de marzo de 2012 15:40
Asunto: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

Hi!
Shortly before the 3.4 release the web team made some adjustments to the page 
http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
This made the links for Arch Linux, Mageia and Debian smaller. I feel some 
explaining of the rationale behind this is in order so that we don't end up 
with the same thing again within the next 6 months.

We made this change so it would be more straight to get GNOME for the largest 
share of website visitors possible. Taking aside the fact that it's a fairly 
complicated business to get yourself a working GNOME 3 system compared to say, 
installing Firefox or LibreOffice, I felt these three systems are fair 
compromises (they are also ordered alphabetically):
* Fedora - best in class, big download link straight off their website and a 
system that is very close to a vanilla GNOME 3 system (+ some software I am 
somewhat unhappy about like SELinux, ABRT but that's ok).
* OpenSUSE - Some jumping through hoops in order to get what you're actually 
looking for and a certain risk of ending up with KDE or some other system in the 
end. I've talked to Jos and the current link is the best we can do today. 
[1]
* Ubuntu - By default Ubuntu comes with something that is very different from 
what we advertise on our websites, but questions about how to install latest 
GNOME 3 on Ubuntu keeps coming up a lot on our G+, Facebook and news articles, 
so hopefully the apt:-link will do all right.

So what about the others then? I forgot about the Amazing Distro X! :)
I felt that the instructions for Arch ("GNOME is available in the _extra_ 
repository"), Mageia ("GNOME 3 is coming in the next version") 
and Debian ("In experimental, not in stable at all"). All these 
distros are probably really cool, but they are making things harder for our 
users. But! I am hopeful that their website front pages will do their best to 
advertise how to get a working GNOME 3 system up and running in very little time 
in the future.


For me it's ok, though IMHO I've found the font size too small and difficult to read, at 
least for me. I think that showing the links of these distros in a single line is enough to 
note that your state above.

Just my two cents,

   -- Juanjo Marin



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