Re: [Gnewsense-dev] About gNewSense Draft document

[Sam Geeraerts]

Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef:
> Hello all,
>
> I wrote a draft of the document about gNewSense that is part of the
> documentation team projects[1] and I'd like to ask if you could revise
> it and comment about it.

* Introduction:
- "find out what gNewSense is"

* What is gNewSense:
- The screenshots image is a bit big. I need to use all of my 1024 
pixels in screen width to not have the image overlap the table of 
contents. Wouldn't one of the screenshots suffice?
- I feel a bit uneasy about mentioning Windows and the likes, although 
you make it clear that they are non-free. It helps some people to get 
the idea of what an operating system is. But when they read this, they 
would've already booted into gNewSense, so I'd guess that they would 
already see that it's similar to Windows.
- "Free software allows people to do that, proprietary technology does not."
- "look at the code that makes *up* the system"

* What Can You Do With It
- "gNewSense lets you choose"
- "Pidgin lets you use"
- "such as XMPP (Jabber),": XMPP is the official name, but Jabber is 
widely known.
- "watch them in convenient presentations"
- The screenshot contains an F-Spot window. F-Spot will be replaced by 
gThumb in the live CD, so it would be nice if the screenshot would 
reflect that. We'd like to avoid encouraging Mono apps.
- The tiled screenshots are very nice. :)
- "make your life easier by letting you use graphical dialogs"
- "study how gNewSense works to learn how to change other components"

* Try It Out
- "as you would normally do"

* Technology Background
- "a modified version of the Linux kernel, with all the non-free parts 
taken out of it"
- "The gNewSense community will not include"

* Why Free Software
- Including the article is a good idea. But note that it's licensed 
under GFDL no invariants, which is incompatible with CC-0 of the entire 
document.

Thanks for writing this, keep up the great work. Sorry for not 
responding sooner, I wanted to be thourough rather then quick.