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 <[email protected]>: > > > > > ----- Mensaje original ----- >> De: Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]> >> Para: marketing-list <[email protected]> >> 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 > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Akshay vyas -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
