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Cinnamon 1.4 releasedCinnamon 1.4 releasedPosted Mar 19, 2012 21:30 UTC (Mon) by hein.zelle (guest, #33324)Parent article: Cinnamon 1.4 released
Is it me, or is it really that hard to add a little entry to your website explaining what your project is all about? What it is or who it's for? This is definitely not the only site suffering from this issue. I'm sorry, but only showing your development news with no explanation whatsoever does not make a very informative website.
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Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 19, 2012 21:34 UTC (Mon) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
I'd imagine if you didn't have an idea of what the project was, you might get a hint from the text LWN included.
Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 19, 2012 23:02 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Still, it's a matter of marketing, which FOSS for the most part totally blows at.
Good products know how to sell themselves to new users. Most FOSS projects seem to only know how to sell themselves to existing users.
... except the ones that just alienate their existing users and lead to projects like Cinnamon. And also have no net gain in users because they're still also bad at selling themselves to new users.
Good technology means nothing. Bad technology that everybody knows about is going to be used far more often than good technology that nobody knows about.
Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 20, 2012 0:01 UTC (Tue) by Company (guest, #57006) [Link]
http://www.android.com/ => "Introducing Google Play"
http://www.adobe.com/photoshop/ => "Spot-Healing Brush with Content-Aware Fill" http://www.microsoft.com/windows => "The future of Windows" http://www.google.com => "Google Search" http://www.worldofwarcraft.com => "Evil Is back: Diablo 3"
http://www.enlightenment.org => "What is Enlightenment?"
You were saying?
Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 21, 2012 6:23 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Not a single link you just posted in any way proves or disproves anything I said. Seven sites does not indicate a trend. Especially when your examples for proprietary software were all items that literally just about every single damn computer user on this planet already knows about and need no introduction, so to speak. :)
Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 20, 2012 7:23 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
The marketing to end users is done by Linux Mint itself. At the level of source code for an individual project, the target 'market' is other developers and system packagers, not end users. So they need less handholding.
Cinnamon 1.4 released Posted Mar 22, 2012 11:58 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
He doesn't say how to get the packages either. Otherwise, however, the blog looks very good.
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