I just removed some terminal info from the unofficial docs

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

just to clarify. tasksel is NOT back in (the normal desktop images), it was
never removed from the alternate images which is what I use to install
lubuntu! (only lubuntu and server now support alternate images).

Regards,

Phill.

On 30 April 2013 17:09, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> +1
> Also worth noting that you can often copy&paste from error-message pop-ups
> although that's not really a Cli thing.  For pasting into Cli i think it's
> worth mentioning that the keyboard short-cuts wont work but that mouse
> paste is always good.  I always imagine the person at the other end going
> "Ewwww" at that, if you say it right, and that helps them remember it.
> Humour being a good tool in the battle to teach people.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl>
> *To:* ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 16:58
>
> *Subject:* Re: I just removed some terminal info from the unofficial docs
>
> I agree with every one of you that the CLI is very important and I
> personally I am not afraid it would be too difficult for beginners to
> use commands in the terminal. Perhaps it would be a good idea to add
> this tip: you can copy (from a web page) and paste the command in the
> terminal. This is to avoid errors like "l" and "1", "O" and "0".
> Hannie
>
> Op 30-04-13 17:29, Jorge O. Castro schreef:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >> I for one agree on that. And the page mentioned by Phill:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
> >> seems to be a good start, at least, for the purpose.
> > Yeah I think the information is important and excellent, we just don't
> > need an entire speech about the command line on the front page,
> > perhaps a link to start off the troubleshooting section or something.
> >
> >> My defensive reply to Jorge's message was merely aimed at saying that
> >> CLI is important in Ubuntu rather than suggesting that the whole removed
> >> section be reinserted.
> > I agree it's important; the way the section reads is that if you're
> > not learning the command line then you're doing it wrong whereas (if
> > we're doing everything right) people can just go use their computers
> > without having to care what uname -a is.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jorge Castro
> > Canonical Ltd.
> > http://juju.ubuntu.com
> >
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