Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:58:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> If anyone has a few links that they think every newbie should have read,
> please let me know and while I may not be able to package them, I'll
> definitesly host them.
I'd definitely be willing to maintain such a thing. It would require
more input from others than the standard package, though, so I think
the idea of a dedicated web page maintainer and a dedicated package
maintainer would probably work well.
I'm excited. This sounds like fun! I have lots of ideas, too.
-Michael
> > Quoting Colin Marquardt(colin.marquardt@gmx.de):
> > > * Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> > >
> > > > the most common problem I have encountered when suggesting Linux as an
> > > > OS to other people is, that even though there is a wealth of docs out
> > > > there, new users don't know where to look for them. Newbies need to
> > > > be told
> > >
> > > Indeed. Going a slight bit astray from the original topic, I´d suggest
> > > to add a few lines to /etc/motd, like:
> > >
> > > "If you are a new user to Linux, you´ll want to read the New-User
> > > Guide. Do a `more /usr/share/doc/new-user-guide.txt'."
> > >
> > > This new-user-guide.txt would be a required package, and consist of
> > > just a few pointers to the most important information, and with the
> > > exact steps on how to read this information with a standard Debian
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > This would also help in reducing the traffic on this and other lists,
> > > IMO.
> > >
> > > Colin
> >
> > Very good idea, Colin. That would be _much_ better than a weekly
> > posting to the list! We would have to find a Maintainer to package
> > it, of course.
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