Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 01:16:26 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage Message-ID: <363BFCB9.6B2C278C@aei.ca> References: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org> <19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>,<19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981101061204.63924@welearn.com.au> <199810312135.PAA17201@bonkers.taronga.com> <19981101084334.31126@welearn.com.au> <363BFA57.E061C36@aei.ca>
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Malartre wrote: > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 03:35:38PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > > > In article <19981101061204.63924@welearn.com.au> you write: > > > >There is another link that I'm thinking should be there but it'll take > > > >some more planning and another web page. We have some visitors who are > > > >so sure about what they (think they) have to do, that no hints to the > > > >contrary will alter their expectations: > > > > > > > I have to download a file, probably called freebsd.zip, probably > > > > a couple of megabytes, and then unzip it and run freebsd.exe or > > > > setup.exe to see what this program looks like. Then I'll understand > > > > what FreeBSD is. > > > > > > Do we want people who think that's what FreeBSD is, trying to install and > > > run FreeBSD? > > > > No. That's why we need to direct them to something they can understand > > instead of letting them end up in -questions where nobody has the time > > to understand them. It shows we have respect for their time even though > > they are no use to us. > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > -*Sue*- > I understand what you mean Sue. > I just seen that Wolfram had uploaded the new FreeBSD web page. > How about those solutions I see: > Change the allignement of the left column in something like that: > News > ... > Software > Ported Application > I want FreeBSD > Download FreeBSD.zip whatever -->Link to "What's FreeBSD" > What's FreeBSD -->Deep -simple- explanations that FreeBSD is like a > Windows95 not abble to run windows95 applications :-) > Getting FreeBSD > Release Information > ... > > Or simply write in BOLD in the right column under "What is FreeBSD" > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for "PC-compatible" > computers, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. > <B>It is not a simple application, but a powerfull operating system at > the same level has Win95 and MacOS that don't run Win95-MacOS > applications." > In a better/more concise way than me. > Cya And a screenshot which would be different from Win95 would be helpfull for a newbie to understand the concept. Including some Xterm and the normal stuff like Netscape/The Gimp, etc... -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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