Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr at mundo gmail com>]

Hi,

2010/2/21 Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>:
> I contacted Ken VanDine off list, and he and the new maintainer are
> discussing getting some new images (or 2.30) ready.

Good news, thanks Paul!

--lucasr


> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Darton Williams <dartonw gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been following the thread and could throw some resources at
>> creating live media. Who should I contact?
>>
>> Website action items below.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
>> > I might recommend either removing the Installable part or changing the
>> > copy to talk about the Distributions page.  I think it's in a user's
>> > best interest to install a downstream distribution such as Ubuntu,
>> > Foresight or Fedora for example - installing the GNOME Live media will
>> > limit the user's ability to get 3rd party software such as GNOME-Do or
>> > Gwibber, etc etc.
>> >
>> Removed links for now, added the following:
>>
>> "To install GNOME onto any computer or virtual machine, download one
>> of the GNU/Linux distributions listed on the Distributions Page. These
>> distributions will install GNOME as the default desktop, allowing you
>> to get started right away."
>>
>> Maybe we should mention that many of these distros also offer live CDs
>> and can boot the OS without installing. Not sure if they load GNOME in
>> that config though.
>>
>> > For VMWare and Virtualbox, I'd reverse the order for two reasons:
>> >
>> > 1) Alpahbetical
>> >
>> > 2) Virtualbox has an open source version and VMWare is closed source
>> > (I'm not trying to start a flame war here - and I do believe we need to
>> > link and talk about VMWare).
>> >
>> > Now that I think about it, I'd put QEMU and Parallels above the
>> > Virtualbox / VMWare section as well as QEMU and KVM are free software.
>> >
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Darton
>
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