Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement

[Dougie Richardson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Langasek" <steve.langasek at canonical.com>
To: "Matt Zimmerman" <mdz at ubuntu.com>; <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement


> Hi all,
>
> The Gutsy Beta release is a day away, and so it's time to collect our
> thoughts and tell our users all about it this shiny new release.
>
> Attached is a draft for the beta release announcement mail.  I would
> appreciate your review of this draft to help more clearly communicate to
> users why they should give this beta a try.
>
> A few notes on the text.  I have one bit of language that I'm not thrilled
> with marked with a 'FIXME', feedback on this would be particularly 
> welcome.
> The download urls have not yet been vetted at all, but copied directly 
> from
> the Feisty beta announcement.  And two of the wiki pages mentioned in the
> mail, <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades> and
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Beta>, do not yet exist.  Help in
> collating the information for these pages would also be welcome.
>


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15:40


Hi Steve,

No problems really, though having installed the beta and seen the feedback, 
I'm surprised there is no mention of the improvements in boot time - one of 
the biggest complaints always levelled at the distribution. I haven't seen 
much on this anywhere and wondered if it's a product of the new kernel or 
that usplash appears not to be working.

As for the line you're unhappy with how about just:

"Ubuntu 7.10 on the desktop features the cutting-edge 3-D Compiz window 
manager, fully automated printer
installation, and superior support for Firefox browser plugins."

I think that conveys enough to whet the appetite of those (few) users who 
are unaware of Compiz.

Also, how about moving the line "Please download using Bittorrent if 
possible." above the list of mirrors, along with an expansion of why 
bittorrent is the preffered method?

Cheers,

Dougie Richardson
dougie at lynxworks.eu
http://blog.lynxworks.eu/