From: Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: Wilko Meyer <w@wmeyer.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:11:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <175fc645-283f-9f38-1722-002a8eb0ee33@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il7ad936.fsf@wmeyer.eu>
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Hi Wilko,
El 13/10/23 a las 9:41, Wilko Meyer escribió:
> Hi Luis,
>
> Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is a proposal to help differentiate Guix, the package manager,
>> from Guix System.
> This sounds like a good plan.
>
>> Background: As far as I understand, Guix was supposed to be GNU's
>> package manager, and GNU was supposed to be the operating system: two
>> products with two different websites. Unfortunatelly, that didn't
>> happen and the Guix website became the home for two products: Guix,
>> the package manager, and Guix System, a distribution of the GNU
>> operating system. Since then, both products have been presented almost
>> as a single one in the website. Probably as a result of this some
>> people call both products by the same name (Guix),
> Splitting up the website in a "guix for package management" and "guix as
> a operating system" part sounds reasonable. I've reread the landing page
> and to me, one of the biggest issues it currently has is, that it
> vaguely describes attributes, but doesn't work well as a Guix primer for
> either Guix as a package manager or Guix System as an OS.
>
>> and some other people don't understand what «Guix» is by skimming
>> through the home page.
> This seems directly related to the landing page not being too great as a
> brief introduction for Guix. If I'd be a first time visitor of the
> landing page, I'd probably have questions along the realms of:
>
> - what is Guix?
> - why should I use it? what can it do for me/in my field?
> - do I want to use guix as a package management/or Guix System as a OS?
>
> On that note, I really appreciate and like how Guiles[0] landing page works
> in this regard. As it is written in a pretty clear language and answers
> pretty straight forward:
>
> - What Guile is.
> - What it has to offer/what potential common use cases are.
> - Usage examples on how to get started.
>
> reading it provides yet enough information to get a grasp of what Guile
> is and how to use it/how to get started and what to look up next.
>
> While writing this mail I also had a look at the mockups of potential
> solutions you provided; and they do address these points in a pretty
> good way, especially as it uses a clear and straight-forward language!
Thanks for taking the time to review the proposal. I'm glad to hear
you'd find the changes useful.
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-15 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-12 0:15 Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01) Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 1:54 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-10-12 21:23 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-13 7:24 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 8:07 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 21:52 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 12:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-12 16:58 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 22:32 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 20:30 ` pinoaffe
2023-11-01 16:01 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-02 13:18 ` pinoaffe
2023-10-13 9:41 ` Wilko Meyer
2023-10-15 13:11 ` Luis Felipe [this message]
2023-10-26 15:07 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-16 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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