Re: what's an OS on the front page
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:19:30PM -0500, James A. Treacy 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.
If they've no idea what's an operating system, they're more than likely to
be confused by the pages anyway, and will leave before the page has finished
loading... or if they're really there with a mission to find out something,
they'll click on "Read more".
> 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. :)
Yeah, yeah :)
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