Download page is not very explicit #88
Description
The Downloads page, while navigable, has several issues in its presentation. I can make PRs for at least some of these changes, but I would like to document the issues here and also have some discussion about possible changes.
- The link for where we can actually download live images and rootfs tarballs is located inside the
Download installable base live images (x86)section, even though it contains the images for all versions of Void. It should probably be moved up in the page. - The requirements listed are very different from what can be found in the Docs. We could put a link to the Docs page that shows the system requirements, in order to centralize this information.
- The naming convention should be documented and explained (for x86 and for ARM):
- ROOTFS images
- PLATFORMFS images (board specific)
- rootfs images for systems that have their own PLATFORMFS images, but aren't marked as ROOTFS (they can still be differentiated by their extension)
- Live systems
- Different libc - this isn't mentioned at all in the download page
- The rootfs instructions for all ARM images are still contained in the wiki. Furthermore, Advanced installation guides void-docs#85 indicates that there is a wish to centralize these guides, so after the docs are ready, they can be linked instead of the wiki.
- Not all files in http://alpha.de.repo.voidlinux.org/live/current are documented:
- GCP: I guess it's for using as servers inside Google Cloud?
- ARM images that are not specific to some platform
- RaspberryPi 3 image (as mentioned in Update info about Raspberry Pi images #42)
- Small addendum, Raspberry Pi image also runs on Rasp Zero.
- Possibly mention the option of using xbps-install for a chroot install without requiring the rootfs image.
I will try to create drafts for at least some of these changes.