Website & download

Mon Jun 4 21:25:28 UTC 2012

Excellent :)

Thanks,

Phill.

On 4 June 2012 22:14, 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> **
> Ok, in two or three days I'll finish the buttons, with your suggestion:
>
> 1) 64-Bit
> 2) 32-Bit
> 3) Mac-Intel
> 4) Mac-ppc
>
> El dl 04 de 06 de 2012 a les 21:17 +0100, en/na Phill Whiteside va
> escriure:
>
>  Rafael,
>
>
>
>  as ever... top quality work.
>
>
>
>  I'll take a couple of full sets :)
>
>
>
>  Thanks,
>
>
>
>  Phill.
>
>  On 4 June 2012 21:08, 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>  Yep. I like it. I made for my blog something similar (sorry, attached
> image):
>
>
>
> ...with 4 variations. I'll calculate the size and made some mockups, if
> you agree.
>
>
> El dl 04 de 06 de 2012 a les 20:34 +0100, en/na Phill Whiteside va
> escriure:
>
>
>  Hi Rafael,
>
>
> I'd start with four (Lubuntu does not have arm etc. candidates).
> 1) 64-Bit (Post about 2007 computers)
> 2) 32-Bit (Pre about 2007 computers)
> 3) Mac-Intel
> 4) Mac-ppc
>
>
> They could then be told the difference between Desktop Install and
> Alternate, followed by torrent / direct download choices. As to how make
> this all flow with icons etc, I'll leave that to you, who lives and
> breathes graphics :)
>
>
> I'd certainly be interested in your ideas, as http://thesii.org/iso/ could
> certainly do with a make-over :) (There are more iso's to be added there)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Phill.
>
> On 4 June 2012 19:51, 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at Ubuntu spanish mirror and you're right, there's no trace of
> Mac images. ARM may be named now Toshiba (I'm not an arch expert, of
> course). But I count 12 only, maybe it depends on mirrors. Have a look:
>
> http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/precise/release/
>
> But the idea I described in last e-mails (regarding website design) was
> about including two or four buttons only, pointing directly to the ISOs, in
> usual archs (32 and 64, ubiquity and alternate, 2x2=4). Don't you think?
>
>
> El dl 04 de 06 de 2012 a les 18:03 +0100, en/na Phill Whiteside va
> escriure:
>
>  Hi Rafael,
>
>
> I've just had a look at the ubuntu.com site. I can't even find mention of
> the Mac series of installs (to say nothing of arm etc.)? We have a total of
> 9 variants for Lubuntu 12.04. Ubuntu has 15 (excluding server edition) !
>
>
> I'm all for a nice page with icons and descriptions, hopefully the wiki
> team can come up with one.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Phill.
>
> On 4 June 2012 17:50, 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I must say what I think. The people (and I) want to see a BIG
> button and easier navigation modes, as well as avoiding third party
> redirected pages. Remember this http://i.imgur.com/5W7B7.png ? That was
> thinking about ubuntu.com, which is a really gret job, talking in
> simplicity and efficiency.
>
> This will happen again, by many many users.
>
> PS. Sorry for being so "graphics nazi", can't avoid it.
>
> El dl 04 de 06 de 2012 a les 16:18 +0100, en/na Phill Whiteside va
> escriure:
>
>  HI,
>
>
> you say you were on "Get Ubuntu" ? The Lubuntu area is Get Lubuntu [1].
>
>
> The information on that page is up to date and covers as many the vast
> array of choices available owing to the vast array of computers that
> Lubuntu will run on. Please also note that none of Lubuntu releases are
> LTS.
>
>
> The start to Lubuntu Documentation is at [2].
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Phill.
> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu
> 2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu
>
> On 4 June 2012 13:35, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/04/2012 07:24 AM, Mark Ballard wrote:
>
> I would like to give some feedback on a user's experience trying to
> download and install Lubuntu, if I may.
>
>
> It's hard to find the download page. Clicking on "Get Ubuntu" takes  you
> to the help page. Then you have to rummage around on the site to find
> somewhere to actually download the version you need.
>
>
> When you do select to download, it gives you v12.04. Even after rummaging
> around not possible to see any other versions to download.
>
>
> The help page talks about other versions. It's information implies that
> 11.10 is the long-term release. But there appears to be nowhere to download
> the long-term release. The importance of short-term releases became
> apparent to users recently when, for example, they got shipwrecked with the
> short term release of Ubuntu before the Unity overhaul. Had they stuck with
> the long term release prior to that, they would not now be shipwrecked. Yes
> I am speaking from experience. But what's the point of having a long-term
> release if you don't make it clear to users that this is the most advisable
> version to download and then point them to it?
>
>
> The checksum info page contains info only about 11.10 checksums. But the
> site downloads 12.04.
>
>
> The checksum and torrent additions to the download process have really
> snarled things up for idiot users - sorry, you can't say that, can you?
> It's snarled things up for 'dummies'. No, you can't say that either, can
> you? Just because you are not an experienced command-line user,
> administrator or nerd hobbyist, that doesn't make you a dummy. But you are
> likely to have plenty else to do: looking after kids, working over-time,
> fixing the car, fending off zombies. So the install process requires that
> you learn about torrent clients and command lines and checksums. That's the
> last thing I need to do. That's eliminated most of the population of the
> planet as potential users straight off. Point and click, man. What's with
> all these complications?
>
>
> So anyway. What I needed: a guarantee that I've got a version that will
> work with the target machine: PIII, 256Mb; a long term release version; and
> on the advice of this website, a checksummed version. What I got:
> likelihood the version I've got doesn't work with my machine, a short term
> release version, and no checksum validation.
>
>
> On top of all that, I'm dizzy from going back and forth and round the
> website for the information I need to perform this simplest of operations:
> downloading a version to install.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Hello Mark,
>
> I'm sorry your experience with downloading Lubuntu has not been pleasant.
> You can't download other versions of Ubuntu or Kubuntu off of their
> websites, unless Googleing "ubuntu 11.10", "ubuntu 11.04", etc. The latest
> long-term support release is Persistant (12.04 LTS, the LTS stands for
> Long-Term Support). Thanks!
>
> In Christ,
> Ryan
>
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