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I +</I>><i> think that there should be more of an emphasis on the unique qualities +</I>><i> of Mageia rather than pointing out all of the things that we do just +</I>><i> like any other Linux distro. +</I>><i> The current texts are: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 1. Mageia isn't just a Linux distribution: we're a community of +</I>><i> users, developers and advocates from around the world. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 2. Free software means choice: KDE, GNOME, LXDE or other desktops; +</I>><i> Firefox, Chromium and other browsers; Thunderbird, KMail, Evolution +</I>><i> for mail... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 3. Mageia covers your graphics, your video creation and editing needs +</I>><i> with tools like GIMP, Inkscape, Blender... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 4. Mageia's Control Center gives you easy-access tools to set up +</I>><i> your hardware, software and more, all in one place. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 5. For your everyday and office needs, LibreOffice, GnuCash, +</I>><i> KMyMoney and others cover word processing, spreadsheets, +</I>><i> presentations and finance. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So that means that I'm happy with 1 and 4, but less happy with the +</I>><i> other three. +</I>><i> Maybe if it was the other way around: 3 texts describing the +</I>><i> uniqueness of Mageia and 2 describing other things. Or better yet, 4 +</I>><i> or 5 texts describing the uniqueness of Mageia, but I know that that +</I>><i> is less likely and less easy. +</I> +I agree with Max, it would be a good idea to focus more in those +installer text's on what makes Mageia different from lots of other +distro's. 1 and 4 are good, but I know with some effort from many of us +as a team we could have something much better for the others. + +I went to my first LUG meeting yesterday that was fun :). I talked to +some people about Mageia, someone in particular and he asked me what +made Mageia different from other distro's and that kind of thing. He +was also interested in what software it could run, that it could run +Eclipse I think it was for example. I told him that it could, and I +basically said something about how most distro's run most of the same +kind of software, because of something called upstream, who make the +original projects such as Gnome, KDE, and Firefox. + +Any way he also wondered what made Mageia unique why it should be used +over other distro's and that kind of thing. I told him how it was a 100% +community distro with a non profit organisation behind it, with everyone +being a volunteer. I also explained that it was a fork of Mandriva and +told him what a fork is. When it came to the distro itself and what +made it unique over many other distro's I didn't really have much to say +at all, other than that it has a nice graphical control centre. + +I gave away most of the Mageia 1 CD's yesterday to 7 or so people :), +that I came back with from FOSDEM 2012 at the LUG. I gave most people +two CD's KDE and Gnome. One or two or so people only got a KDE CD, +because I had more of those. The last Gnome CD went to a person who +would have rather had Gnome than KDE, but he got given a KDE as well. +Even gave a Gnome and a KDE away to the taxi driver who took me there, +we were talking about stuff, and he was saying how he had some Windows +issues and so on. Three KDE CD's left that I would like to give away to +other people at the LUG hopefully. Keeping two KDE's and Gnome's for +myself that I came back with from FOSDEM 2012 :). + +Any way going back to installer slide show images, let's take Ubuntu for +example again. With Ubuntu they tell some of the users what software can +be run in the slide show, such as Firefox and LibreOffice, but they also +mention what is special to Ubuntu, for example the free cloud space on +Ubuntu One, and the software centre, and music store. + + From a end user point of view, really what does make Mageia special +when compared to many other distro's? Well yes the control centre, but +really is there anything else as well? + +The control centre I think is rather good and most distro's lack this +kind of thing, but Mandriva has the control centre of course as well, +and all of the distro's based on it I think have it + +There's a distro called Unity Linux which has nothing to do with +Canonical's/Ubuntu's Unity. It's based on Mandriva and is more of a +distribution builder distro with many other distributions based on it, +but I assume they all have the control centre as well for example. + +On the subject of being unique I recently remembered a little while ago, +how in the past there was something about how in the future Mageia +would do something that would make it rather unique over other distro's. + + From Sebastian sebsebseb +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000719.html">[Mageia-marketing] Installer images +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000721.html">[Mageia-marketing] Installer images +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#720">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#720">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#720">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#720">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">More information about the Mageia-marketing +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |