Hi!
Shortly before the 3.4 release the web team made some adjustments to the
page http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
This made the links for Arch Linux, Mageia and Debian smaller. I feel
some explaining of the rationale behind this is in order so that we
don't end up with the same thing again within the next 6 months.
We made this change so it would be more straight to get GNOME for the
largest share of website visitors possible. Taking aside the fact that
it's a fairly complicated business to get yourself a working GNOME 3
system compared to say, installing Firefox or LibreOffice, I felt these
three systems are fair compromises (they are also ordered alphabetically):
* Fedora - best in class, big download link straight off their website
and a system that is very close to a vanilla GNOME 3 system (+ some
software I am somewhat unhappy about like SELinux, ABRT but that's ok).
* OpenSUSE - Some jumping through hoops in order to get what you're
actually looking for and a certain risk of ending up with KDE or some
other system in the end. I've talked to Jos and the current link is the
best we can do today. [1]
* Ubuntu - By default Ubuntu comes with something that is very different
from what we advertise on our websites, but questions about how to
install latest GNOME 3 on Ubuntu keeps coming up a lot on our G+,
Facebook and news articles, so hopefully the apt:-link will do all right.
So what about the others then? I forgot about the Amazing Distro X! :)
I felt that the instructions for Arch ("GNOME is available in the
_extra_ repository"), Mageia ("GNOME 3 is coming in the next version")
and Debian ("In experimental, not in stable at all"). All these distros
are probably really cool, but they are making things harder for our
users. But! I am hopeful that their website front pages will do their
best to advertise how to get a working GNOME 3 system up and running in
very little time in the future.
I've also added some instructions to get the live-cd running off a USB
stick, but I'm happy to hear ideas of how we can make this process more
straight forward, especially for our website visitors who are on Windows
systems (about 1/3 according to our website stats, I'll write a separate
e-mail about our webstats later).
1. All distros have the issue of trying to be everything to everyone to
some extent, so I'm not picking specifically at OpenSUSE here.
- Andreas
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