On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Ricky Zhou<ricky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The difference between the type of documentation that Kishan made and > our official docs is something that I've been thinking about lately. > While there definitely is a place for a comprehensive install guide > that covers every single installation case, perhaps it'd be nice to have > a shorter, less intimidating version that goes through the defaults that > most brand new users would go through. Yes, a very good point brought up. A new user just wants *simple* steps that would guide him through the installation process. > > As an example of what I mean, openSUSE has some friendly, > screenshot-filled install guides that they link off of their download > page: > > http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Local > http://en.opensuse.org/Installation/11.1_Live_CD > Does something similar to this exist in Fedora? Having such small guides would be very good for new users. > one striking fact that I noticed is that even with those tall > screenshots, both of those pages are not much larger than just the table > of contents page of our install guide > (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/). > > Sure, those pages don't cover the install process even nearly as > completely as our docs do, but from the perspective of a new user who > just wants to go with the defaults and get to a working system, that > style of documentation seems *really* nice. > > I'm very interested to hear what you guys think about that - would > Zikula perhaps make it any easier or nicer to manage smaller documents > like these? Zikula... I need to get googling... for not having followed the activites of the team of late. Regards, Kishan Goyal. -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
