Bug#686819: simpler presentation of iso downloads
On 28/12/12 09:06 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Along the same line, it was suggested on #debian-boot that the main
> http://www.debian.org/index page should do the same: "CD ISO images"
> should be before "CD vendors" in the "Getting Debian" list.
>
> Also, network install could be more useful to put early.
I agree with both these suggestions.
> Also, a link to the testing distribution would be useful (pointing to
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/), otherwise it's no wonder
> we have not much user feedback about it.
I'm not so sure. There are only very limited periods of time during the
release cycle that we would actually want to direct people there. We
have announcements for the beta releases that already do that, for those
who are following along and anticipating the next release.
> To summarize, the second column would become:
>
> Getting Debian
> CD ISO images
> Network install
> CD vendors
> Pre-installed
> Test next release
> Developers' Corner
> Debian Packages
Except for "Test next release", that seems reasonable, but I would
actually bump "Network install" up to the top, as it is recommended and
most used way these days.
> Also, the http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should explicitly tell that it
> is for squeeze: for instance, the title should be "Getting Debian
> Squeeze".
Again, not sure about this suggestion. "Debian" unqualified is
implicitly the current stable release (there are a lot of pages where
this assumption is made, and I would not want to tediously spell out
both codename and version# on each). If it needs to be clarified here,
it should go into the introductory text, not the page title. Maybe:
old:
Debian is distributed freely over Internet. You can download all of it
from any of our mirrors. The Installation Manual contains detailed
installation instructions.
new:
Debian is distributed freely over Internet. You can download all of it
from any of our mirrors. The current stable release, codenamed
"squeeze", is Debian 6.0.6. The Installation Manual contains detailed
installation instructions.
Ben
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