Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

[Akshay Vyas <akshayvyas29 gmail com>]

Missed linux mint,Linux mint also has GNOME3 in their main/base
distribution and as
far as i know it is most popular amongst the linux newbies

2012/4/1 Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>:
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> ----- 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> * 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Just my two cents,
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>    -- Juanjo Marin
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Akshay vyas