On Friday 11 May 2007 12:05:03 wrote Martin Schmidkunz:
> Martin Schlander schrieb:
> > Den Thursday 10 May 2007 16:59:59 skrev Frank Sundermeyer:
> >> it's been a long time since you have last heard about the openSUSE.org
> >> redesigning efforts. Robert and I have been busy with it the last few
> >> weeks and we would like to present you the first milestone we have
> >> reached: a new and improved download page which will be hosted on
> >> download.opensuse.org:
> >> http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/download/
>
> It looks very cool! Especially when imaginatevly adding the CD/DVD icons
> :-)
>
> > - there should be some kind of recommendation to use a download manager
> > for http/ftp.
>
> I don't think that an explicit clue to that is necessary because
> * experienced people will use a download manager anyways if they want to
> * non-technical users will be confused by that
> * this adds another step to the download procedure and we wanted to keep
> it as simple as possible
>
> > - there should be some kind of explanation about md5sum
>
> Do we really need md5sums? The medias are checked during installation
> anyway.

right, md5sums is something for experts, this page is for the average user ...

> > - I fear the way it looks now people with support for 64bit will feel
> > they must get the 64bit version. Which is likely to cause them a few
> > problems they would not face if they installed the 32bit version.
>
> Like what?
> Honestly if there are problems running 64bit stuff on a 64bit system
> then these problems should be reported and we should try to fix them.

yep


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