Ubuntu book

[Brett Carrington]

How about "Learning Linux with Ubuntu?" Something aimed towards new
desktop users would be great because Ubuntu seems most suited for this
use. I think a new idea would for it to be in two parts, the first
only dealing with how to do things in the GUI and use different
programs to do work (most people I think just want to get work done,
they don't care about it replacing IE or Excel or anything, they just
want it to be easy to get work done.) The second part could be more
advanced and maybe give a basic intro to the command line and UNIXism,
and maybe some history of UNIX?

Brett


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:52:29 -0500, John Hornbeck
<hornbeck at freeshell.org> wrote:
> Ok, I am proposing this to the group.  I am interested in writing a book
> about Ubuntu.  I have talked to Mark Shuttleworth and have his blessing.
> My question to everyone is what type of book would be needed first off.
> We talked about a "Nutshell" book for O'reilly, but I am thinking more
> of a book like the "Learning Redhat Linux" book.  For those who don't
> know, I work part time as a Linux instructor for a Vocational school and
> that was the book I used mostly because it covered alot of ground in a
> fairly small book.  What are you opinions?  If this is something that
> emerges I will want to fully work with everyone and keep contributing
> the things I learn back to the doc team.  I do not plan to stop working
> on docs(someone I told already asked so I thought I would address that
> right now), but this is a doc that I think is really needed.
> 
> Let the discussion begin,
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