Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- 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