On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 05:39 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Fedora is certainly usable by home users. My wife and children use > > Fedora and I have had to provide them no support over the past several > > releases, other than upgrading the system when the new release came > > out. > > > That's really cool. But initially some years back, when the first time > you might have used, you must have guided the family to how to use but > now they have become habitual and know the basics. > > Here is the case that nobody knows anything about fedora, but i have a > very small knowledge only and for the first time only using. So the > correct question (w.r.t home usage and kids play) is that what basic > should be learned out of fedora for a single having installed fedora > 11 and no other external hardware is there. what my intention is that > my wife should be able to use fedora and I also perfectly so starting > from the basics and running commands only in the terminal is always > not okay becoz exposure to usage has been delimited in this case. > > > > If your computer is only a few years old, I would really recommend > > starting with the latest Fedora, which is Fedora 13. > > correct, but even if fedora 11 is used, i don't think the loss of > generality but basics are same. fedora 13 and more to come must be > having more features to be known though we are still unaware of the > old fact and features related with fedora. > > Regards, > Parshwa Murdia The advantage of a gui system is that most of what your family already knows from windows works very nearly identically. The bits that don't they can google or ask you and you can google. For example, the setup of the system has several good step by step guidelines on Fedora.org. Your browser, firefox, has a link that will take you to the Fedora website, and there are links there to various support bits. Each application, Firefox, OpenOffice (or OO), the various games and all applications each have their own supporting groups, most are supported by one of the code development sites, and they support manuals, training links and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to help novices on their software get up and running. Fedora is unique only because it rotates software frequently, about every 18 months for the release cycle with about 36 months support. So if you go to Fedora 13 today, it will be fully supported for another year roughly before Fedora 14 comes out, and then supported for 18 months after that. The reasons to upgrade are due to the evolution of protection against attacks, new and better (we hope) software, and new developments in general related to computing. So to advise you, any question in computing can be answered, but first you have to phrase the exact question you want answered. Fedora is a support organization for one particular flavor of the Linux Operating System. The things you do on a computer are applications. Fedora gathers a common subset of these applications and publishes the works as a release of Linux. Fedora as a group supports the OS. The applications are supported by their own Special Interest Groups, which are hosted on various software development sites. You can ask here to get guidance to some sites that support the application, and sometimes you can get very specific answers, but the applications are truly supported by their own groups. Just as if you bought Adobe Photoshop for your Microsoft system, you would have to go to Adobe to get specific answers about Photoshop. The best part if you have any budding computer scientists, is that the full source code of the entire system is available to examine, compile yourself and work on to see which piece does what. Thank you for joining the Fedora community, and I hope you find us helpful. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
