Comments on: Promotional materials

By: farhan

farhan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:25:42 +0000

have already passed on the word about “linux mint 7” to so many of my friends. people are in love with it.

By: Bruce R

Bruce R — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:46:35 +0000

All the promotional materials ideas are great for increasing general awareness, whilst at the other extreme Mint appears to be the first distro to make its comprehensive User Guide more ‘up front’ but I think that an ‘up front’ Keep It Simple ‘Welcome to LinuxMint’ presentation is needed, with all the tools already on the LiveCD.
Accessed via the newly ‘up front’ web browser, there could easily be a whole new ‘up front’ area on the web-site devoted to this, including a link to the ‘About’ team page, but I was thinking more of a set of Impress presentations about basics, like ‘this is what you should be seeing and what it does’, things that get taken for granted by LinuMint fans, plus a few motion video clips, which could all be edited and updated from feedback, without waiting for a new release.

By: KittyKatt

KittyKatt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:22:38 +0000

Sure thing! I’ll be making more in the next few days.

By: Clem

Clem — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:15:53 +0000

KittyKatt: Thanks, that’s much better.

By: KittyKatt

KittyKatt — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:58:34 +0000

Fixed it. I like that new slogan, as well. Here is the link once again... Stamp - Linux Mint by *AnonymousLink on deviant ART

By: norman

norman — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:03:05 +0000

The feature page for the newly released Mint 7 is a great way to let people see how Mint works in action, but a longer promo video as the one found on Apple home page would be a very nice way to show of a lot of features and how Mint (and Linux) is used.

Why not open a Mint store, like Ubuntus store? And last but not least, is it possible to bye CD in bulk like at Ubuntu store from Mint? It would be great to bye a bulk of maybe 25 or 50 CD to give out. It also looks a little more proffesional than a CD with some rable (if thats what it is called).

A little OT:
One thing Linux Mint should do, making the live-CD experience be easier for new testers, is open some sort of keyboard layout after you get to the desktop. As with most distros, they assume that you are living in an Englsih speaking country. Although distros like PCLinuxOS and Mandriva sort this out in a somewhat overwhelming and timeconsuming way, and Ubuntu and Fedora in a rather invisible way for new users. Some sort of focus on where the network connections is located would probably also be nice for new users.

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By: Prasil

Prasil — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:15:45 +0000

I have already shared Linux Mint 7 Gloria with 3 of my friends… All of them liked it…. I will do my best to promote this with more people !

By: Jesse Goron

Jesse Goron — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:32:17 +0000

Fancy words and art isn’t what got me using Linux Mint. I was sick of always installing programs and add-ons to run a certain file type. Mint comes with all the encoders and decoders that everyone eventually downloads and installs individually on other OSes. I suggest using numbers to get people to use Linux Mint. Now the following doesn’t sound exiting or fun, but changing OSes is a hard experience for most, and it is comforting to know that you wont have to do everything over again to reach compatibility.

“Install Linux Mint.
Process ________ different document file types.
View and edit ________ different picture file types.
Playback ________ different audio file types.
No fooling around.”

By: KittyKatt

KittyKatt — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:40:31 +0000

@Clem: Sure, I’ll edit it today. Me and a friend of mine, ArcherSeven, are working on my laptop today. After that, I’ll edit it and post here when it’s finished.

I’ll also post on the forum post linked up top.