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Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top |
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Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:08:51 +0100 |
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Ricardo,
I don't know who wrote the current intro, but I think it's pretty good.
Have you got negative feedback from curious visitors?
Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 17/01/18 at 18:30:
> Hi Guix,
>
> on the website it starts right away with a list of features:
> “Liberating”, “Dependable”, and “Hackable”. But what is this thing
> called Guix?
It's not just a list of features. The current intro is:
- Liberating. The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is an advanced
distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU
Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
- Dependable. It comes with the GNU Guix package manager, which in
addition to standard package management features, supports
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
management, per-user profiles, and more.
- Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level
embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and
whole-system configurations.
I like the way it mixes description, features, and values without
getting lost in marketing-speak. It also breaks up the text into small
chunks, which is apparently mandatory on the 'Net.
That's not to say there's no room for improvement. Paragraph #1 in
particular might be a bit vague and verbose. But who's talking.
> We should add a very short paragraph above that list to say what Guix
> and GuixSD are.
>> What do you think?
Hm, what do you suggest?
Kind regards,
T G-R
- website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/17
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <=
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, George myglc2 Clemmer, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, myglc2, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/21
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, myglc2, 2018/01/24
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Oleg Pykhalov, 2018/01/24
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/24