Re: Get GNOME

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 00:48, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Murray Cumming">
> 
> > I guess we should have some kind of instructions on www.gnome.org for how
> > to install GNOME, apart from just the download link to the sources at
> > start/stable.
> > 
> > I guess this has to be a list of versions distros, with specific
> > instructions, and a note about which GNOME version is actually available
> > on that distro. The distros themselves are not very good at advertising
> > that information, and it would be nice to have it all in one place.
> 
> > Does that seem like a good idea?
> 
> Yeah, although I tend to think we should just mention distributors, and
> leave off the version stuff. Will anyone maintain it? Probably not.

Actually I think people will tell us if it's wrong, if we ask them to on
the page. I think the version stuff is important, and I don't think it's
that difficult to do. I'll get it started some time soon if that's OK.
If it doesn't work then let's remove it later.

>  Unless
> we work out some clever way of doing it or getting the distributors involved
> in that process. That's probably a different problem.
> 
> This ought to go on the start/ page, with lots of other rad 'getting into
> GNOME' stuff, but we can get to that later. :-)


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