Fedora User Guide

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Aug 24 05:20:52 UTC 2005


Andrew Hudson wrote:

> Karsten Wade wrote:
>  > Any questions or thoughts to start?
> >
> > - Karsten
> >
>
> Thanks for the welcome!
>
> My initial thoughts on the documentation is that it is perfect for 
> established users, i.e., those who have installed a Linux distro 
> previously. However, if I were to put my wife in front of two 
> computers, one with the docs on screen and one with Fedora on screen - 
> she would not really have a clue where to begin.
>
> Looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocIdeas I quite 
> like the look of the Fedora User Guide - this could be a crucial 
> document to help new users ease their way into Fedora & Linux in 
> general. I would see it as being written in a conversational style 
> rather than a straight 'here are the facts in a particular order


I am not fond of the "user guide" name. It isnt specific enough for my 
taste. If we have a system administrator guide tommorow, it would like 
those people arent users of Fedora. If you are writing about the 
desktop, call it a desktop guide. It is what it is

regards
Rahul




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