Re: Bug#862980: update homepage
Hello Clara
Thanks for working on this!
I like your proposal. The part of the kernel I would change it a bit,
because we have ports based on other kernels too.
This is my proposal, based on yours:
---
<p><a href="https://www.debian.org/";>Debian</a>
is a <a href="intro/free">free</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system";>operating
system</a> for computers,
provided and maintained by a <a href="intro/diversity">diverse</a>
community of <a href="https://contributors.debian.org/";>volunteers</a>,
the Debian Project.
Debian is ported to many devices with different computer architectures,
using the <a href="https://www.kernel.org/";>Linux kernel</a> or others,
and provides over <packages_in_stable> <a
href="distrib/packages">packages</a>:
software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
</p>
<p>
If you want to know more, check the links below and the <a
href="intro/about">About Debian</a> page.
</p>
---
Notes:
(1) I'm not sure if it's good to link to the www.d.o/ports page in the
word "ported" or not, because that link appears later in the page, in
the "Getting Started" section.
(2) While in the beginning of Linux distributions Debian really made a
difference because of the easiness of installing packages (hence the
mention "software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on
your machine"), I think nowadays everybody takes that for granted (both
in Linux distributions and in other operating systems, look at the app
stores in mobile OS for example). Maybe it's time to change that
sentence for another "killer"-feature(s) that we provide, related to
packages? I'm thinking for example in that we provide source packages
for... the whole archive? (I'm not sure), or that a major part of our
archive builds reproducibly. Difficult to shrink those in a sentence,
but I'd like to know opinions about this, and if we decide that's the
way to go, later we can try to find the correct wording.
Best regards
--
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
El 12/08/17 a las 20:18, ClaraTrT escribió:
> Hi,
> I want to help to make the Debian website and wiki more welcoming and
> started with a suggestion for the frontpage.
> I read the links of the bugreport and wrote the suggestion below.
> I think the frontpage should be nice facts in easy sentences (as it
> already was) but add the mentioning of Linux (as many people will know
> what it is but might not link it to Debian), mention the Debian Project
> as a community and add a link to the diversity statement to show
> newcomers and interested people that this is important for the community
> to include everyone and last but not least make the links below more
> visible because i didn't relly see them for quite some time (just after
> looking up the Debian help page for like the hundriethed time I found
> this nice link).
>
> In https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/05/msg00134.html it is
> mentioned to sell debian more, this i would put into the Debian about
> page. So that the text on the frontpage stays nice and compact as it is
> and if you want to know more about "what is debian", "how to get
> debian", "how to get involved" and so on, you will find more information
> in the links.
>
> looking forward to comments on this suggestion
> Cheers
> Clara
>
>
> <p><a href="https://www.debian.org/";>Debian</a>; is a
> <a href="intro/free">free</a>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system";>operating
> system</a> for computers,
> provided and maintained by a <a href="intro/diversity">diverse</a>
> community of <a href="https://contributors.debian.org/";>volunteers</a>;,
> The Debian Project.
> Debian is based on the <a href="https://www.kernel.org/";>Linux
> kernel</a> and
> provides over <packages_in_stable> <a href="distrib/packages">packages</a>,
> which is software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on
> your machine.
> </p>
> <p>
> If you want to know more, check the links below and the <a
> href="intro/about">About Debian</a> page.
> </p>
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