The world needs more newbies

[John Levin]

On 15 Jan 2005, at 10:39, Nicholas Ubuntuser wrote:

> Hi gang.
> I'm soooo happy to be Ubuntuing now. (tell me thats a verb... ) Its an 
> honour and a privilege to be part of the ever improving and 
> oh-so-shiny and sexy Ubuntu.
>
> I guess I'm after an intro-users guide. Basic stuff, like how do I 
> access my CDROM, how do I format a hard drive I just plugged into the 
> IDE, how do I use the disk filing system (and manage partitions). 
> Simple stuff really.
>

Others have pointed you towards the wiki, etc. If you have specific 
questions, fire away on this list.

There is an ubuntu documentation team which would be happy to hear of 
ideas and needs from everyone, newbies very much included

> BTW I just migrated from Win**** but still love OS-X. I hope thats ok.
>

Lol! Writing this email on OS X - it's what introduced me to the world 
of all things *nixy.

(Are you running Ubuntu on a mac? If so, I'd like to know of any 
specific ubuntu-on-mac questions you have for a FAQ I'm preparing)

John