[chef] Re: Re: Omnibus Client installer open beta

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Andrea Campi
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 wrote:
> There's something I don't quite get: what's the point of having the pull 
> down?
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> At the end of the day, it just shows instructions for either
> Unix-derivatives or Windows—wouldn't a radio box work just as well?

The web page has been through a couple redesigns for various reasons.
I would say it never really got a proper design.

The original idea is that the instructions could vary based on the
operating system and version. For instance, Ubuntu systems should run
through "| sudo bash" whereas debian users are more likely to be root
and the command should just "| bash". Also the instructions originally
used wget, which isn't everywhere by default so some were switched to
use curl. Is curl everywhere? I'm not sure.

These items still need work, and I really wanted comments on this page
before we fully released, so I just shipped what I had been given
already. There's definitely work to be done on that page.

Bryan