Newbie and using Ubuntu

[s.roman]

I think have a ubuntu newbie mailing list would be awesome. currently
im getting all emails from the ubuntu mailising list so that if i
needed to fix anything I could just search through it instead of
emailing about the same problem again, but there are so many emails
about complex solutions to simple problems that it's overwhelming. I
haven't installed Ubuntu yet, but am planning to do so soon, and
coming from windows I have no idea on how to use linux. Hope this
email wasn't too confusing.

Roman

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:38:42 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:39:15PM -0400, Richard Schinnell wrote:
> 
> > There has to be a better way to figure out and recommend solutions to new
> > Linux (Ubuntu) users problems.
> 
> In an ideal world, you would be able to solve all of your problems through
> the GUI.  New tools are being written and enhanced all the time to move
> toward this goal, but there is still a Linux system underneath it all, and
> when the time comes to debug a problem, it's very useful to be able to peek
> under the hood.
> 
> Ubuntu is in what is essentially a public beta period right now, and there
> are still some significant bugs being worked out.  Debugging things with
> users who are familiar with the command line accelerates this process, and
> gets us more quickly to the point where everything Just Works for all users.
> That accounts for a lot of the command-line traffic you see here.
> 
> Yet another segment of it is just Linux users helping one another.  If a
> user has past experience with Linux, they likely already have command-line
> skills, and welcome answers in that form.
> 
> This doesn't mean that if you are a stranger to the command line, then
> Ubuntu is not for you.  Quite the contrary, we are working hard to bring
> Ubuntu to a broad audience of computer users, including those without Linux
> experience.  But if you have Linux experience, that's a useful language in
> which to converse about Ubuntu.
> 
> > I have problems getting a printer installed on my stand alone Ubuntu
> > machine.
> > I have a windows 2003 network with a few XP workstations and a couple of
> > Linksys print servers for a HP LJ 4000 and a HPLJ 3330.
> > I have shared the printers on a couple of workstations and even did it on
> > the server.  I know the ip of the print servers but can not get either to
> > print a test page.
> 
> What happens when you try?
> 
> > Maybe Linux and the graphics interface still has a way to go to be able to
> > bring  the unwashed and unworthy into the Linux fold.
> 
> We've only just begun. :-)
> 
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> - mdz
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