Ubuntu book

[Sivan Green]

Interesting enough, most of the were already on the
UsefulDocumentation wiki page.


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:52:17 +0200, Sivan Green <sivang.ulists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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