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[Juan Camilo Prada]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 14:40 -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2008-05-18 12:23:06 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=556388&cid=23450894
> > 
> > That one is specific to websites (just throwing it out there) but the rest
> > of the conversation is also interesting.
> Aw, the fedora.org/fedora.com comment just hurts.  I'm sure that this
> has been asked/done before, but have we ever spoken to the owners of
> those domains?  What kind of response did we get?  
> 
> The get-fedora comment is definitely valid, though (and it's good to see
> some progress being made in this area).  I took another look at
> opensuse's download page (http://software.opensuse.org/), and I'm
> starting to like it more and more.  I don't think the 4 steps look very
> indimidating to users at all, and I like that they don't bother too much
> with fancy animations (as a side-affect of this, there's already a
> reasonable default download link at the bottom, so you only need one
> click to download the i386 install DVD).  
> 
Current version of get-fedora Craig and i were working on (i hope to get
a chance to work on that soon) just uses some javascript to hide each
step with a fancy animation, but it can be avoided as well, its just a
matter of changing some parameters and we get something pretty much like
what opensuse actually has. 

Again the i386 issue with the users... we should really start thinking
in "standard computer/laptop" kinda names for each architecture, which
really seems to make things easier for normal users

> Any thoughts on this?
> Ricky