Re: what's an OS on the front page
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:17:39AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> Will anyone mind if I remove the sentence explaining what's an operating
> system from the front page? Ignoring the fact Debian is hardly the type of
> thing people who don't know what an OS is should be dealing with, I figure
> there are probably more techies visiting our web pages that wonder what's
> GNU/Linux than non-techies that wonder what's an OS. And the latter can
> always click on "Read more".
>
> The main reason this bothers me is that a lot of external sites use our
> initial paragraph for their description of Debian, and that always includes
> the OS definition which sounds pretty stupid...
>
You need something to explain what a site is about for someone who
stumbles across it.
Of course, you are probably tired of me mentioning that I feel most of
the stuff on the main page should be removed and put down a level. :)
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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