We could put the various installation videos on the website, perhaps showing the appropriate video for the user's operating system. It would be great if we could show this after the user clicks on the download link.
Ian. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Matthew Toseland < toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > [Saturday 13 Aug 2011] [11:35:49] <TheSeeker> > http://www.youtube.com/user/CryptNode has a couple of videos in english, > http://www.youtube.com/user/FoilenCOM has a few videos in french > > Should we link to these, or even embed these? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj83kJv-4q4 > Tutorial for installing on Ubuntu. Seems competent, should we link to it on > the download page under linux? Hopefully OpenJDK will be acceptable in the > near future, which eliminates most of the complexity. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paXTrd2wmAc > Windows, including updating Java and using the rabbit. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AdX5ttMh4 > Frost tutorial. Details some major windows caveats. We don't want Frost! :) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMKYecHt7yg > Getting FMS working on Windows can be a royal PITA. It might make sense to > link to this on the forums page (when freetalk isn't loaded), or even, with > permission, upload it (once we have a VP8 filter). I don't think this covers > the specific issues I ran into with a windows user when trying to make it > work some months back, but maybe they are fixed. > > Some jargon, but likely still usable for a lot of users, saves time e.g. on > windows. > > Also the video files are available. Could be useful for a biggish package. > Maybe even the invite-installer could eventually include extra documentation > etc, including videos? Or maybe put them on freenet, although that mostly > defeats the point. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: ian at sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110821/01b6b579/attachment.html>
