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Date:      Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:31:27 -0500
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possible change to first page on site
Message-ID:  <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca>
References:  <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au>

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Sue Blake wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote:
> >
> > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD?
> > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with
> > > "Install" would be better than "Getting".
> >
> > Good idea.
> 
> Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me.
> 
> First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think
> download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to
> "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the
> freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write
> to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and
> we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation
> instructions.
> 
> --
> 
> Regards,
>         -*Sue*-
Ok Sue, I'll follow that way: I have a demo of what it could be to
really answer "damn, where do they hide freebsd.zip!".
http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/
http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/whatis.html
http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/nozip.html
The two first link in the FreeBSD! section are made by me, and are not
perfect, but has I said, this is just a demo :-)
-- 
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