[proposal] Newbie-FAQ or Everything You Always Wanted To Ask About Ubuntu But Were Afraid To Ask

[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2004-12-23 kello 10:07 +0100, Oliver Grawert kirjoitti:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2004, 21:17 -0800 schrieb Chuck Vose:
> > I hate to see people putting up guides in places other than the wiki,
> > but I like the idea.
> i can just agree here....
> put it to the other official docs on the wiki, its nice to have
> everything in one place, a place where the core team can review things
> for correctness or adjusts bits and pieces that have changed is
> certainly better than spreading all the info in different places on the
> web.

This is right. I don't know much about Linux but I do know some about
how it is to be a newbie and try to cope with a number of sources of
information, all in different format. For a newbie it's a struggle to
jump around in different sites that all have their own way of organizing
things (wiki, forum, FAQ, How-To, Manual,...). If the information is
spread around, these separete sources cover less than one central source
and the newbie is forced to travel from site to site looking for the
specific information he/she needs. In the case of a newbie, this
increases the time it takes to find the awnser manyfold.

Ari