From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jan 2 16:03:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17833 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17801 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:03:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA05237; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:02:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from w@localhost) by campa.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27084; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 18:57:26 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from w) Message-ID: <19990102185724.A27072@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 18:57:24 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Sue Blake , Wolfram Schneider Cc: Malartre , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change to first page on site References: <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 11:44:26PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-01-02 23:44:26 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote: > > > > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD? > > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with > > > "Install" would be better than "Getting". > > > > Good idea. > > Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me. > > First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think > download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to > "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the > freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write > to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and > we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation > instructions. Anything is good which reduce the mail flood. BTW, the link 'Getting FreeBSD' point to the handbook chapter '2. Installing FreeBSD' ;-) -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message