Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

[Andreas Nilsson <andreas andreasn se>]

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.

I've also added some instructions to get the live-cd running off a USB 
stick, but I'm happy to hear ideas of how we can make this process more 
straight forward, especially for our website visitors who are on Windows 
systems (about 1/3 according to our website stats, I'll write a separate 
e-mail about our webstats later).

1. All distros have the issue of trying to be everything to everyone to 
some extent, so I'm not picking specifically at OpenSUSE here.
- Andreas