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

[Giovanni Sce]

Quoting "Lehofer, Meinhard" <nl at lehofer.net>:

> 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.
>
>
I think we can (we should) produce something useful in the next 3 months.
Can we use the documentation-list?
And maybe after starting a wiki section we'll mostly use just that.

Gio

>
>
> 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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