Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?
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From: Yves Junqueira <yves@cetico.org>
Date: Oct 17, 2006 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?
To: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4+news@gmail.com>
On 10/17/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4+news@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2006-10-17, Mario Iseli <mario@marioiseli.com> wrote:
> We could start together a project which does this shell scripts, I think
> it's not really a lot of work. Don't file a bug, first we can do a
> "linuxnewbie" program and someone (maybe myself) will build a debian
> package one day.
It may be much cleaner to include help links /etc/motd, adivising the
user to read a hipothetical
"/usr/share/doc/linux-beginners/new-users", or enter a help-mode by
typing a certain command.
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Yves Junqueira
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