[aklug] Re: A starting point

Probably a better idea than creating even more documentation to cover
whats already covered is to teach the new user how to get this
information themselves.

The man pages are a little technical but you get used to them. This
system should be one of the first things a new user to Linux should
get familiar with. A couple of good hints would be to read the man
page for man. Show them what the man -k does and show them how to
search a man page using the '/' inside of a man page.

Explain to them that Google is their friend and wikipedia might be a
good place to get an overview of what they are trying to accomplish.
And of course, the website for the app itself might be a good resource.

Thinking about it, we should have this on our webpage and there should
be a link to it on the list email. Nothing fancy, just a few quick
notes for the new user. I would even try to draft something for review
of the whole group, if it is found to be something we would like to do.

Quoting barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>:

> To sort of muck out what Jon has been saying to go with Damien's
> intent, I ran across this:
>
> http://www.howtoforge.org/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.04
>
> Although I am currently using Ubuntu and liking it, it doesn't have to
> be Ubuntu.
>
> What I like about this article is the list of applications that the
> person is looking to use.
>
> One thing I'd do though is get rid of some of the duplicate applications.
>
> Also I heard that pidgin is getting replaced by some other
> application....but it has been popular as of late.
>
> If we can mostly agree on packages we'd like to see...maybe we can
> move forward some.
>
> Mike B.
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Received on Fri Sep 18 09:10:29 2009