On 01/11/2007, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/1/07, Derek Cicero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >>> This is also a good example as "gimme a screwdriver" has the same level > > >>> of incompleteness as "gimme OpenSolaris". > > >> The Linux world asserts that this is a feature. Do you see it as a > > >> bug or a feature for OpenSolaris? > > > > > > The OpenSolaris community is not in a fight, so I would like to see > > > that there is a help on www.opensolaris.org on this topic. > > > > > > There is more than one distro, so I would like to see something like > > > a "get Opensolaris" page that explains the background. We already > > > have something similar in the "download" section. > > > > Each distro has their own site (many courtesy of Genunix) where they can > > explain the specifics of what they offer in detail. Our downloads page > > has pointers to each of those sites. > > > > I don't think we need to add every distro to the os.org home page > > anymore then we'd put every distro on the Nexenta home page. > > Why not? Is there something special about Sun's distro, that gives it > the right to sit on the homepage? Is it more functional than the other > distros? More complete? More stable? Or is it that it's just because > it is a "Sun distro" that Sun is implicitly buying advertising space > on the homepage? (And usurping the community's name for it's distro in > the process).
Ignoring the troll about "Sun's distro"...assuming for a moment that a voted upon and duly approved community distribution exists, I would think featuring it prominently (the way Ubuntu does) with links to "other distributions" somewhere else is most appropriate. As someone focused on users, I think you of all people would appreciate users being able to hit "Download" and not have to read "umpteen" confusing paragraphs before deciding what to download. Things should be short and to the point; anything less is focusing on egos and not on users. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
