Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)
Bill,
Count me in on this. I'm another one of those people who's been at it for a
while, but still feel very newbie-ish about (too) Many things. I'd love to
put some time into helping the people who work so hard putting the system
together. Whatever I can contribute to, I'll do...
A thought I'll throw in quickly is to ask contributors to include a list of
reference material for the reader to hit when they are ready, whether that
be man pages, info, linux gazette, gnome help system, web sites, or whatever.
Not necessarily complete, but hopefully a good start with room for others to
throw in their favorites.
Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:22:35PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> As a newcomer to Debian I, like many since I've joined this list, ask typical
> newbie questions about the some basic things. If we take a step back and look
> at the big picture there is a basic group of things new users want to get
> accomplished. For example most users want to send mail to other people. While
> we could say to them "go RTFM!" that is hardly what they are asking for. If
> they did take that RTFM advice...how many of them do you think would stay
> around? Not a lot likely. HOWTO's, README's, etc are fine and dandy and
...
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