<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> "Richard Schinnell" <richnrockville@hotmail.com> 10/03/04 12:51pm >>></font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I did not mean to look down on those who do know a lot about Ubuntu as they </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">are the ones, as you say, do end up improving the os. I was really trying </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">to get the point across that some of the "techi's talk to newbies as if they </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">should know intuitively how to do a greb or sudo. This can be frustrating.</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. It is for the intended recipient only. If you have received the email in error please notify the author by replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this email. Any views expressed by an individual within this email which do not constitute or record professional advice relating to the RNLI, do not necessarily reflect the views of the organisation.<BR> <BR> Registered Charity Number 209603<BR> </DIV> </TD> <TD vAlign="top" align="right" width="160"> <DIV align="right"> <IMG src="http://ce.insight.messagelabs.com/ce10/content/viewer/158759682/166562018/166562019/166562020.gif" alt="Royal National Lifeboat Institution corporate logo" border="0" useMap="#Lifeboats"><map name="Lifeboats"> <area shape="rect" coords="2,1,158,103" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/genlogo" target="_blank"> <area shape="rect" coords="2,108,156,163" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/gentext" target="_blank"> <area shape="rect" coords="4,313,153,397" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/genclick" target="_blank"> </map> </DIV> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <img src=http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/ignore? width=1 height=1> </BODY></HTML>