Newbie and using Ubuntu

[Rob Sharp]

One of the great strengths of Gentoo is the quality of the installation
guide, which covers many ways of installing.

It may be useful to offer common scenarios for popular hardware - a bit
like what the hardware wiki is trying to achieve, but in installation
guide form.

The Gentoo user forums are also a pretty good source of information -
perhaps phpBB (or something similar) could be useful for a searchable
FAQ (Yes, I moved to Ubuntu from Gentoo - I had hard disk borkage and
couldn't face recompiling my system from scratch)

Forums create a sense of community, and I think thats what Ubuntu is all
about.

Rob.



On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 11:08, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> Maybe a 2-5 page getting started
> guide that people should read
> before using the list. Although
> Ubuntu remit is to be easy to use
> lets not forget that most people
> who first use windows/macos have a
> learning curve and many people
> would get windows pre-installed/get
> a friend to do it.
>  
> >>> "Richard Schinnell"
> <richnrockville at hotmail.com>
> 10/03/04 12:51pm >>>
>  
> I did not mean to look down on
> those who do know a lot about
> Ubuntu as they 
> are the ones, as you say, do end up
> improving the os. I was really
> trying 
> to get the point across that some
> of the "techi's talk to newbies as
> if they 
> should know intuitively how to do a
> greb or sudo. This can be
> frustrating.
>  
>  
>  
>   
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