On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 19:05 +0100, Andrew Hudson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Having read with a heavy heart the post from Greg concerning a newbie > experience with Fedora, I kinda figured that what we need is an > orientation document for new users (ie new to Linux) to pick up when > they come to Fedora. > > Brief outline below: > > Welcome to Fedora Core Linux > Linux concepts (ie root etc) > First impressions > Gnome - where do I find? Screensaver, desktop background etc > Email - What's this Evolution thing? (potential to include > Thunderbird here because of availabilty on Windows) > Internet - Finding the web > Productivity - Finding OpenOffice.org, brief intro to each component > IM - Where's AIM or Windows Messenger? > Moving Further > Games - getting your Windows games working under Fedora > Getting support for your graphics card/Installing appropriate drivers > > This is just a starting point - feel free to shout down or include any > other areas that you feel would be genuinely advantageous for a newbie > to read about when they first boot into Fedora. Andrew, I threw this on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Drafts/GettingStartedGuide As per the FDSCo meeting yesterday, we might as well think of this as a good test case. Hope I'm not inducing any cringe.... -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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