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>:
> ----- 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
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Akshay vyas