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Subject: Introduction
From: Hunter Bukowski <the_fine_print@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 02/19/2009 12:53 PM
Hi,
I'm Danny, a grad student in psychology in Chicago and have a lot
of basic hardware and software experience but Unix and Linux are still a
little new to me. I'm not afraid of a command prompt-- I grew up with
DOS. When I have technical problems I am resourceful, patient,
analytical and able to fix them or find the help I need online.
Greetings!
I feel easily-accessible, browseable and
searchable documentation is critical to making Fedora more user-friendly.
I could not agree more. Not every project has documentation, although
Fedora (and some projects) have been getting better at providing it. In
that documentation it is in multiple different formats (man, info, html,
and more) that are not easily searchable or formatted well. Gnome's
"yelp" browser is adequate for the time being, but it is not highly
advertised -- "man program" is still the defacto standard for finding
out the ins and outs of a program. This works great on headless servers
or UNIX-grown folks, but for Desktop users (who are growing in large
numbers) the documentation is about the only thing left lacking on
providing a friendly and enjoyable experience.
Example: NetworkManager
Can anyone point to me documentation located on my *local* system that
details what the nm-applet procedures are to add a static IP or VPN to
an interface? You can't! Do you see any "Help" buttons in nm-applet? No!
Anyways, welcome to Fedora,
Michael
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