Thanks for the response Dave. I've looked at opensolaris.com and it's much more like what I would expect.
Sorry if I caused any confusion. Joe Dave Miner wrote: > Joseph J VLcek wrote: >> 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. >> > > I think your feedback is important and useful, but I would point out > that opensolaris.com is the primary outlet for the distribution, not > opensolaris.org. I think its design (while imperfect to be sure) is > somewhat more oriented at the end-users that we're trying to reach. > > Dave
