Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

[Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

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El 6/08/24 a las 10:26, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) escribió:
> Hello Luis.
>
> I very much like your Guix download page mock-ups that make the download
> pages give clear instructions.  They avoid referring to the manual; this
> is better at least to many users (who currently probably download the
> Guix tarball before they learn it was useless).

Thanks for the feedback, Florian. I'll consider sending patches for 
these then.


> The question of wording is if it would be an improvement to use terms
> popularized elsewhere.  I have opinions, but perhaps I’m wrongly
> conservative in this regard.
>
> Guix is all about packages, therefore it is a package manager.  I
> believe the shell and container and system, home support are still about
> packages.  Despite other package managers not doing it.

Yeah... Well, and I guess there's not much interest in changing the 
definition anyways. So :)


> Also you write in the system download page mock-up, Guix System were a
> distribution of the GNU operating system.  I believe this is wrong; Guix
> (not Guix System) is a distribution of the GNU operating system.
>
> The definition of OS should not be something like Windows, running on
> top of an IBM Bios or Intel Management Engine.

Thanks, I'll take that into account for the patches.



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