Ubuntu Basics

[John Hornbeck]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:09 -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
>  > If you are not going to go to far, than why have things about
>  > filesystems?
> 
> 
> That wasn't clear enough. I meant the difference between the Windows 
> file system (C:\, D:\, My Documents), and the Linux file system (/usr, 
> /home, etc)

Ok, I understand that.  I was thinking "ntfs" "reiserfs" type stuff. :-)
> 
>  > We(or I) can offer alittle webspace for developing the doc if you plan
>  > on it being a offline doc.  If it will be online than why not work on it
>  > through the wiki?
> 
> 
> Hadn't really thought about that, but yeah, that's a pretty good idea. I 
> think it we were talking about making it available online and in PDF 
> format, so the wiki is a good idea for both, assuming you can upload 
> files to the wiki (I've only written one wiki article so far).
The wiki can except file uploads, just don't kill it with large files.
I could host a pdf if you wanted.

> 
> 
>  > We will help where we can.  Not very many of the doc team(if any) are
>  > employed by Canonical.  There are a few maintainers but unpaid
>  > maintainers.
> 
> 
> Yeah I don't expect much, I don't think that would be fair. Just a push 
> in the right direction where needed I guess ;)
> 
We are always willing to push.

>  > Please check http://ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LearningUbuntuOutline This is a
>  > book myself and a few others are working on.  If you would like to
>  > incorporate some of your ideas into it, we may talk about that.  Please
>  > let us know.
> 
> 
> I'd like to do this project separately but together, if that makes 
> sense... basically, adding our project separately, but sharing any 
> ideas/documents that come our way that could help the other out. I'll be 
> in contact with you again, I'll talk to the others who were interested, 
> and we'll go from there.
> 
I understand what you are saying and I will help in anyway that I can.
I wish you good luck and try to keep people on the doc team informed, if
you don't mind, we would like to know how your project is going.

John Hornbeck
Ubuntu Documentation Team
> Thanks very much!
> 
> Travis
> 
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