From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] complaints about new web site From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: <20060127184241.GA435@routi.local.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:04:19 -0500 Message-Id: <20060127190423.B8BB91E8C55@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb70a6ec-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 It looks full of outdated, 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 outdated]" or alike.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