From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] complaints about new web site
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:04:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060127190423.B8BB91E8C55@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060127184241.GA435@routi.local.net>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:21:10PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > It's probably a very good sign that the only actual complaints we've
> > gotten about the web site have been about how ugly the HTML
> > source is. Hopefully that's the biggest problem it has.
> >
>
> Yes, I am very pleased by the new design - good work.
>
> However, one thing (uriel also used to raved about): Can you explain the
> need for the "Additional Software"-page? It looks full of outdated,
> depreciated software and/or duplicating/confusing things (like the first
> download is (seems to be?) a link to the ISO-Image). At least the name
> could be renamed to "Additional Software [not included in sources or
> outdated]" or alike.
The details of the page may change, but I believe there should
be a page listing the major software packages that people
commonly want - tex, perl, python, gcc, ...
I cleaned it up a little just now.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-27 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-27 17:21 Russ Cox
2006-01-27 17:38 ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-27 18:42 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-01-27 19:04 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-01-28 8:52 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-01-28 14:18 ` Russ Cox
2006-01-28 18:41 ` uriel
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