On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mark Phippard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bert Huijben <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe the Windows packages need a more prominent location instead of 5 pages >> down >> on a more than average screensize. >> I don't think the Aix packages which are the first on screen, come anything >> near the >> number of downloads of the Windows binaries. > > I helped with the redesign of the previous page, which was not great > but better than what we had before. This is the reason we used a > table. We wanted to just list things alphabetically, but we also know > Windows ought to be first. So we went with a table with commercial OS > on one side, and open communities on other and this kept it small > enough. > > I would not object to an order that puts Windows first. I was just > trying to avoid things like "Ubuntu is more popular than Red Hat", or > "why are the BSD's at the end?"
Looking at the list, one simple solution could be to just order from Z to A but keep it alphabetical. That winds up with an order like this: Windows Ubuntu Linux SUSE Linux Solaris Red Hat Linux Mac OS X OpenBSD NetBSD HP-UX FreeBSD Fedora Linux Debian Linux AIX -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
