On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:54:04AM +0200, fabienne s wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > Now, once on this page, once again, how is the "average" user supposed > to know that AMD is an i386 architecture (without consulting wikipedia > or google or something). Next the user chooses i386 in their language, > and poof! page not found. The only links that work are the ones at the > top of the page in english. Which links don't work for you? Taking a large random sampling of the manual links for i386, I can't find any that don't work for me. > Maybe I should cut the website maintainers some slack, A bug report to debian-doc@lists.debian.org would be a bit more useful than just cutting them slack... > So it took me (and maybe a first time user) FIVE webhops (minimum) to > find that AMD is in fact one of the architectures supported by Debian > and incidentally only ONE to see that sparc and arm are supported. Well, I doubt that people who don't know that AMD's processors are x86 (i386) compatible know what sparc or arm are anyway? :) Certainly, I can't think of a reason why that page *shouldn't* include a link to further explanation of our architecture divisions, though. I don't think this is the kind of thing that should be replaced with a wiki, however; *these* pages are ones that we want to be impervious to wikispam... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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