Yet Another Why Linux Flier Snapshot

Still poking at this thing, but it did start to resemble a readable pamphlet this weekend for the first time, so I’m excited about that. The wording’s starting to come together (at least in places), and although there are still no images, I’m starting to arrange the text in anticipation of said, and I’ve got a couple ideas for it. Obviously, the big spot under “Isn’t Linux all text and stuff?” will have either a couple tricked out DE screenshots or just their logos if space proves too tight, and probably the Compiz cube just because people love it. And since it’s on the same pane as “What can I do with it?” I think I’ll also throw in like the OOo logo and the Firefox logo and whatnot, just make that an overwhelming mess of stuff. Like, “Here’s a picture of choice. See all the choice here?” The penguin on the cover is totally a place-holder, and if anyone’s got a more creative idea for that, I’d love to hear it. Also, I rewrote the “What’s with all these different kinds of Linux?” pane and cut the horrible car analogy out, which pleases me greatly.

Outstanding bugs include (but are not limited to)…

• Still and always too long everywhere, goddammit. I need an editor.
• Specifically, “Where does it come from?” needs to get cut in half even though it’s my favorite pane, so I can fit in…
• …a “How can I contribute?” section to talk about art and documentation and non-code stuff people can do.
• We are almost ready to start tentatively plugging images in, but there will be some margin futzing later today. Unless your printer has 40px margins on all four sides, this baby isn’t printable yet. It wasn’t my first priority, but now we’re just about ready for an actual printed draft to start markup on. More on that in later updates.

Here’s a tarball!
Here’s a PDF!

enjoy
-p.daniels

PS: Let’s go Twins!