Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:55:43 -0600 From: Mr.Arlen Britton <Eg4VMnCmkP4hAKgEu97trXEdkeK@usfamily.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Web Site Usability Message-ID: <575B3AA8-1396-11D8-85F3-0003936FD06A@usfamily.net>
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Your site needs some work to make it usable for the average person, instead of the system administrators of these systems. For example, if one were looking for security patches or vulnerabilities for Mac OS X, there seems no way to search for them; I tried and got no results that identified anything this way. Surely you can do a better job of organizing and documenting these things so that users can quickly find only what they are looking for, rather than wade through a long list of cryptic descriptions that don't tell them what they need to know. At the same time, if you have a patch for the specific vulnerabilities in question, I don't think it would be too difficult for you to identify whether or not the flaw exists in previous versions of an OS (and which ones), and whether or not the patch would fix it in those versions. I think working closely with the OS vendors would enable them to provide this information to you. Finally, you need to find a common method of identifying patches that are specific to each OS version, rather than the cryptic names you now give them; it certainly doesn't tell me anything at all, so I'm sure a much less sophisticated end user would be even more confused. When can these changes be made? ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------
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