Fwd: Ubuntu book

[Sivan Green]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sivan Green <sivang.ulists at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:52:07 +0200
Subject: Re: Ubuntu book
To: hornbeck at freeshell.org


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:24:00 -0500, John Hornbeck
<hornbeck at freeshell.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:11 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > What debian material would you base it on?  Remember we are talking
> > about an easy to understand guide for non-teche desktop users - i
> > think?
>
> Ok, I am at least not alone on this point.  What I want to shoot for is
> a "Learning Ubuntu Linux" that starts from the beginning of "What is
> Linux", to "Using the Gnome Desktop".  This does not exist in a debian
> doc as far as I know.  We can do multiple book style docs,  in fact
> please do.  We need solid off the wiki docs, and if we don't start now
> we are not going to have good docs for Hoary.

I had the following in mind:

* http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/
* http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/
* http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.html
* http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html#toc1 (this
could be ubntuized/debianized for the community benefit)
* http://www.aboutdebian.com/linux.htm

And as we already started working on the gnome users manual, what
would be the point in reworking it in a seperate book? If we find it
to be less functional we could always help shaunm with improving it,
saying thankyou to the GNOME project which is also one of our main
components in Ubuntu.


Sivan