From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Louis Stone-Collonge To: "'Chris Faylor'" , Jim Kingdon Cc: "overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com" , "louisc@cygnus.com" Subject: RE: ftp load Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: <01BF9382.6D4C6D20.louisc@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00070.html Message-ID: <20000321221400.SYxUbOsj7pUYVSiLuGPH_TpqEKiHnhs3L4lxKlsmvyg@z> okay I have a question. well...more of a pontification really... don't you all think the Red Hat homepage is cluttered enough? There is a movement afoot to remove links rather than add more. comments? I am wondering what ideas you all might have for a single word or title might work in place of sourceware.cygnus.com....something that would be more telling. thoughts? Louis "listening to way too much Adam and the Ants tonight" Stone-Collonge PS: the good news is that more and more people are learning that Red Hat is more than just Linux :) On Wednesday, March 15, 2000 7:00 AM, Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:46:07AM -0500, Jim Kingdon wrote: > >> I wish that the main www.redhat.com site did more than just reference > >> sourceware. People are often confused about where to find cygwin stuff. > > > >Have you asked Louis (a former Cygnus guy, now on the web team working > >from Sunnyvale and tasked with integrating Cygnus and Red Hat web > >sites)? Or someone else with actual responsibility for this? I > >suspect it would be relatively easy to add cygwin info to > > http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ or some other suitable place if > >you just figure out who to ask. > > I was actually thinking that we should advertise links to gcc, gdb, cygwin, > and xconq (of course) on the Red Hat main page. > > The problems that I usually see are that someone has figured out how to > download the cygwin stuff but they don't know where to ask questions. It > should be fairly obvious from the cygwin web page but, inexplicably, they > don't know where that it. > > I see things like "I looked all over the web and couldn't find any information > about cygwin" (sic). > > I don't know if gcc and gdb suffer similar fates but a little extra exposure > should be good for everyone. > > I've Cc'ed louisc with this email. Maybe he'll think this is a wonderful > idea and we'll have links on www.redhat.com today. :-) > > cgf