Regarding Get Fedora page

Carroll Grigsby cgrigs at earthlink.net
Wed May 26 20:45:03 UTC 2010


On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:32:35 -0400
Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:22 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> > 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> > > The links you referenced were removed quite explicitly in the
> > > design. The assumption was that if someone understands how to use
> > > bittorrent, jigdo, and mirror lists, they are more than capable
> > > of making use of a search engine to find them.
> > 
> > I hope that this thread is a demonstration that folks who *could*
> > use a search engine may have been well-served by a page design that
> > didn't deliberately exclude them.
> 
> How about the silent group of folks who looked at the old Fedora get
> page, had no clue what half of the jargon on the page went, and then
> browsed away to look at another distro or worse just stuck with
> Windows or OS X?
> 
> ~m
> 

I'm reminded of Monty Python's Cheese Shop skit, with you playing the
role of the shopkeeper.

-- cmg


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