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You've clearly put a lot of work into this (congrats, by the way), so why not spend a little time making the product site look a little nicer? My first instinc

You've clearly put a lot of work into this (congrats, by the way), so why not spend a little time making the product site look a little nicer? My first instinct when I saw the site was "abandoned open source project" and a strong desire to click away. Reading the intro text didn't really tell me what your thing was. Only after looking at screenshots, lists of pre-installed software, the title of this post, and making a few leaps did I understand what you're actually trying to accomplish. So instead of "mumble-mumble-low-latency-mumble-mumble", how about "[BetterName] - A linux distribution for recording musicians" or similar, followed by a list of benefits to said recording musician. Here is what an OS website needs to look like: http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ Yours doesn't look like that. At all. It looks like every other sourceforge homepage, which means it looks terrible. Get a domain name (for a better product name), spend $400 on a 99designs contest, and spend 20 hours building a nice looking site for your project. For the effor you've put in thus far, your project deserves it.

todoesverso 16y ago
I'll do my best to clarify what GNUGuitarINUX is in a few words, Regarding the name, what is wrong with it, is it hard to pronounce? I just wanted to honor the GNU project and the linux project. I would be more than happy if I could come up with a name that has GNU, Linux, Debian and guitar in it :)
- jasonkester 16y ago
  Try this: Ask any of the 500 people who have visited your site today to tell you the name of that Linux flavor for Guitar players. I'd be surprised if a single one got it right first try. Now imagine it was called "Hendrux - a GNU/Linux distro for recording musicians". Pretty much all of us would be able to repeat that back to you (though a few might misspell the name). Names have value. They send messages. GNUGuitarINUX sends the message that "The author thought this was a good name, so chances are the project itself will be every bit as opaque. Best stay away unless you have a lot of time to spend getting it working."
  - todoesverso 16y ago
    True, I'll see if HackerNews help me with that ;)

todoesverso 16y ago

I'll do my best to clarify what GNUGuitarINUX is in a few words, Regarding the name, what is wrong with it, is it hard to pronounce? I just wanted to honor the GNU project and the linux project. I would be more than happy if I could come up with a name that has GNU, Linux, Debian and guitar in it :)

jasonkester 16y ago
Try this: Ask any of the 500 people who have visited your site today to tell you the name of that Linux flavor for Guitar players. I'd be surprised if a single one got it right first try. Now imagine it was called "Hendrux - a GNU/Linux distro for recording musicians". Pretty much all of us would be able to repeat that back to you (though a few might misspell the name). Names have value. They send messages. GNUGuitarINUX sends the message that "The author thought this was a good name, so chances are the project itself will be every bit as opaque. Best stay away unless you have a lot of time to spend getting it working."
- todoesverso 16y ago
  True, I'll see if HackerNews help me with that ;)