On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:19:24 -0400, "Erik Hemdal" <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > -- General inability to gain ground and sort through installation > issues. If you have never seen a UNIX system or Linux before, trying to > navigate through anaconda and (especially) Disk Druid is pretty baffling. Anaconda definitely presents a lot of stuff if you select the customize options, and the trick is perhaps to get newbies to ignore them and choose the defaults. So screencasting has been proposed as a Fedora bounty, with a target of showing a default install (that's been captured in QEMU or similar), so that the newbie can see what to do and hopefully feel easy about it. Plus cool screencasts have marketing potential. E-mail: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-June/msg00057.html > When I started out, I saw a lot of people who had some UNIX experience, > and who wanted to learn (basically) how close Linux comes to behaving > like their venerable OS. But now, more and more I find students who > have never ever seen a UNIX system. They want to learn Linux, but > without exposure to UNIX, many concepts are quite foreign. Amen. Windows and UNIX worlds think in different ways about even simple things, and that impedes all kinds of communication. -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA
