[proposal] Newbie-FAQ or Everything You Always Wanted To AskAbout Ubuntu But Were Afraid To Ask

[Lehofer, Meinhard]

Hi Everyone,

Do you think we can produce something substantial and useful until the 
Horay release?
March 9^th     Horay pre-release/Gnome 2.10 release
March 30^th    Horay release candidate
April 6^th   Horay release

A Kubuntu release would also be a nice anchor.


I really like your content list and it is good to push things a bit, in 
order to turn the present interest and enthusiasm into a working project.


Which leads to the question: how do we proceed? We can not create the 
newbie FAQ using the user-list alone without driving everybody not 
involved mad.




Buffalo Soldier schrieb:

>I know this newbie FAQ is going to be a lot of hardwork. And I don't
>want to be too "pushy" but here is what I think what can be included in
>the FAQ:
>
>1. Getting a Ubuntu CD
>	a. Downloading & Burning ("What is an ISO image file?")
>	b. Ordering from Canonical
>2. Pre-installation Preparations - Things You Can Do / Read About While
>Waiting for Download to Finish
>	a. What is Dual Boot? Should I Dual Boot?
>	b. Backing-up Data
>	c. Identifying Your Hardware (taking notes on type of mouse, monitor
>resolution, IP address and etc)
>	d. Defragmenting
>	e. What is A Partition (Basic)?
>	f. Resizing Partition
>	g. What is Boot Order & How To Change Boot Order? (booting from CD)
>3. Installing Ubuntu
>	a. Types of installation
>	b. Revisiting Partition (a bit more in-depth compared than the
>previous FAQ on partition)
>	c. GRUB, MBR, Dual Boot and etc.
>	d. IP address, Gateway, DNS and etc.
>	e. What is Root? Setting up user & password
>	f. Updating from the internet
>4. First time booting into Ubuntu
>	a. Familiarising with GNOME
>		I. Where is my Control Panel, My Computer and etc?
>		II. Controlling Menus and "Taskbar"		
>		III. Theme
>	b. Software Installation
>		I. Apt-get & Synaptic
>		II. How to Handle Other Files (.bin or .gz)
>	c. Configuring Applications
>		I. Evolution - How to import inbox / how to setup POP
>		II. OpenOffice.org - How to open, save or convert MS Office files
>		III. GAIM - Setting up for MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and etc.
>	d. Where's My "C:/Program Files?" / Intro to Linux filesystem
>	e. Who Is Sudo?	
>	f. Loging out / Shutting down
>5. For those newbies who wants to learn more
>	a. Mounting
>		I. What is mounting?
>		II. How to mount NTFS drive, cd-drive, floppy?
>	b. Permission
>		I. What is permission?
>		II. How to change permission?
>	c. Safe Computing
>		I. What approriate permission to give
>		II. Danger of doing things in Root
>	d. Intro to Command Line Interface
>		I. For those who are familliar with DOS Prompt (Linux equivalent for
>DIR, copy, delete and etc)
>		II. Basic commands for the newbies
>6. Looking for help
>	a. List of Website, Forums, IRC channels, local Ubuntu Linux User
>Group
>	b. Forum & Chatting ethics
>	c. How to take Screenshot
>	d. List of Frequently use Terms & Phrases (Daemon, Module, Config
>File, Eth0, Runlevel
>7. Hardware / Driver
>	Links to Hardware Compatibility List website
>
>I was reading the post by  Lehofer, Meinhard. Thats where I get the
>idea for this newbie FAQ "content list". I hope I'm not asking too much
>or burdening  Wander Boessenkool or whoever is gonna do this.
>
>Anyway, it's just my personal opinion on what the FAQ should have or
>cover. Maybe I left out something... or maybe I listed too much.
>
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