I would like to share my experience downloading OpenSolaris, Ubuntu and 
Fedora.

Recently a group of us evaluated Linux live media installs. In 
downloading Ubuntu and Fedora it seemed to me that their websites were 
more concise and targeted at users that wanted to download the Live 
Media to install on a desktop.

In contrast the opensolaris page seems to have a lot more information, 
that seems to be, less valuable to the desktop user who simply wants to 
download OpenSolaris Live Media.

Ubuntu and Fedora both have an easy to find big icon to "Begin Download" 
or "Download Now".

There is a checksum for a global image on the Opensolaris download page 
but if one does a text search of the page for "global" a description of 
what the "global" image is for is not easily evident.

More sophisticated users and those that want to contribute are more 
likely to be willing to drill down into the OpenSolaris web site. 
However those that may want to simply download and try OpenSolaris on 
there desktop may not be.

I think it might be valuable to evaluate having the OpenSolaris page 
focus on the desktop user that wants to download and install OSOL. 
Having a "Download" buttom on the www.opensolaris.org page might help. 
The small "Download" disk icon at the top may not be obvious to some.

These are just my thoughts from my experiences attempting to view this 
as a new user.

I realize a lot of thought went into the OpenSolaris site and I 
appreciate that. I only share these thought in an attempt to help 
improve the user experience.

Joe VLcek

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