top 10 FAQ for Xubuntu site

[Pasi Lallinaho]

After a quick look, I suppose combining at least "how do"/"how to" with
question mark and/or "please", I think we can rule out a great amount of
rows...

Pasi

On 07/07/2011 06:48 AM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
> Hello, as I'm not seeing people considering new questions i have taken
> the time to do a simple grep of the #xubuntu logs from
> irclogs.ubuntu.com <http://irclogs.ubuntu.com> from 09 to last week for:
> How do? <http://pastebin.com/k1v1Aptq>
> How to? <http://pastebin.com/8B6ghP0g>
> What program? <http://pastebin.com/yPerf92m>
> I want to.. <http://pastebin.com/zTa40Wf9>
>
> I think that looking at this we could manage to condense a bunch of
> repetitive questions that pop from time to time, if you think there is
> something to add to my greps please tell me and I will add that too.
> Else I will start to parse this results for the most common questions
> I can find.
>
> Again, thank you all who do Xubuntu, and have a nice day. :)
>
>
> 2011/6/29 Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
> <mailto:cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>>
>
>     On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:06:32 -0300
>     Bruno Benitez <gridcube at gmail.com <mailto:gridcube at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Hello to all, hope you are having a very nice day.
>     >
>     > First of all thanks to all the people who makes xubuntu, I
>     always find  this
>     > to be one of the greatest linux distros I've tried. So Thank You
>     All.
>     >
>     >
>     > Now to business, as I've proposed on the #xubuntu-devel channel
>     I would like
>     > if Xubuntu had a "Top 10 FAQ", Why? because I feel that if a new
>     user comes
>     > to an absolute new OS and finds out he can't listen his music he
>     might go
>     > and say, "What?!" and then leave, but if he would come and see
>     that what he
>     > has just installed says to them "Here, check this top 10
>     questions to get
>     > you started", then he would feel welcome and will most probably
>     stay.
>     >
>     > So I'm proposing this possible, not demandatory, and not even
>     10, questions,
>     > in no particular order either:
>     >
>     > *How to listen music and play video?
>     > How to install video drivers?
>     > How to turn sound?
>     > How to play DVD's?
>     > How to enable Compiz? (*this is a really usual question on
>     #xubuntu*)
>     > How does one move panels? (*this might sound silly, but many
>     people have
>     > asked this at least once, me included*)
>     > How to add new themes?
>     > Why don't wallpapers stay listed on the xfdesktop-settings?
>     > *
>     >
>     > I am also proposing this to be 10 FAQ because that would make
>     them easy to
>     > mantain, and easy to translate to many languages by those people
>     interested
>     > on to it, like me.
>     >
>     > Well thats all i guess, have a good day.
>     >
>     >
>
>     This is a fantastic idea for Xubuntu. Yes, many of these should be
>     intuitive. Some are, but most are issues that many new people ask over
>     and over in #xubuntu. I am quite sure these are not all the things it
>     would be nice to point to, either. Let's get a list together and post
>     it on the http://xubuntu.org. It will not only be a very useful
>     aid for
>     new users, but a way to draw/push those same users to the website.
>
>     If you would like to see an item on this list, please submit it.
>     We are
>     closing submissions in two weeks, which will be 2011-07-13.
>
>     Thanks for helping make Xubuntu greater than it is!
>
>     --
>     Charlie Kravetz
>     Xubuntu Project Lead
>     Linux Registered User Number 425914          [http://counter.li.org/]
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Bruno.-
>


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