I'm "late to the party..." but anyway, I would add my voice to those suggesting a small bit of introduction as to 'what' GNOME actually is, for people just landing here out of the blue (which could happen).
For instance, from the GNOME Wikipedia page and also paraphrasing from Apple's page 'Why You'll Love a Mac - It has a better operating system' (remember, "Great artists steal" heh!), imagine something like this (with suitable modifications):
"GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. Easy to use and incredibly powerful, GNOME delivers amazing performance, stunning graphics and enhanced privacy. GNOME comes with software that’s easy to learn and a pleasure to use."
Obviously this could and should be rewritten to suit per the actual release (and to not sound like it was mostly lifted from Apple!) but maybe this is the sort of thing we could use. Also note that it doesn't just say "Linux" since people are working to bring it to *BSD (I do believe it is already working on OpenBSD).
-Brett
Thanks everyone for taking the time and interest in commenting! Very much appreciate the feedback. I will take a look at the first paragraph and see if we can add more detail on GNOME.
Sri
On Mar 22, 2013 2:24 AM, "Brett Legree" <brett legree gmail com> wrote:I had a brief look just now, and so far it looks great - I'll sit down with a cup of coffee at my morning break and put on my "nuclear inspector hat" to see how it would look if I were rolling it out to a team of government workers.
(Personal bias here - I think everyone where I work would LOVE it, since we've been using bone stock Windows XP since the dawn of time it seems - a bit 'stale' these days.)
-Brett
On Mar 22, 2013 1:40 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:sriHere is the revised press release. I'd like more eyeballs on it if possible. Karen and I spent a little time on it tonight as we said we would.Thanks,
http://piratepad.net/j4B5vOQBep
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