Networking

[Stanley Hutchinson]

Reading the Installation for Ubuntu Edgy  the introduction section 1.6 states 
	"This document is meant to serve as a manual for first time Ubuntu users. It 
tries to make as few assumptions as possible about your level of expertise. 
However, we do assume you have a general understanding of how the hardware in 
your computer works"
	That sounds very much like me, but when reading about connecting my two 
computers together in a network,  hopefully by radio, in section 3.3.4 you 
state  "If your computer is connected to a network --- not a PPP connection  
--- you should ask your network's systems administrator "

	The circumstances where anyone fitting your description in section 1.6 would 
be personally installing a new Operating System into a network which is under 
the management of a system administrator are beyond my conception.

	However, what is needed in section 3 are the instructions, or guidelines for 
someone, a family,  with computers at home who wishes to share files over two 
or four computers, to build a small network

	Linux Magazine for Dec 2006 states that Mandriva Linux 2007 comes in three 
versions with  'Discovery'  for the Linux beginner  etc.  There is a huge 
opportunity here.
	Your version of  'Edubuntu'  appears to be aimed at the younger people to get 
them involved with Linux, but ' Please '  remember that very few households 
have a Network Systems Administrator  - at least,  not until you give them 
the information to become one.  

	Every Installation guide I have seen has this problem, so please don't take 
this personally, be the first to go round it

Stan Hutchinson