On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:39 +0530, kishan goyal wrote: > 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. A quick start guide... Hmmm... > > > 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. Zikula is our new CMS solution. > > Regards, > Kishan Goyal. > --Eric
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