Hello Fedora: "Support" FAQ?

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Nov 7 20:29:24 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:08 -0800, Danny Howard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a FreeBSD guy who is trying to get a handle on the Red Hat thing.
> I like that there's a documentation project to cover Fedora ... what I
> am missing is any sort of sanctioned "support forum" ... I keep having
> various little problems, like I want to recompile the kernel on my
> laptop to support NDIS, but the compile tree seems broken ... with
> FreeBSD I am pretty good at plugging the error message into Google
> Groups and usually getting a recent answer.  This does not seem the best
> approach with Fedora: I have to learn the Fedora Way to get answers.
> 
> So, I found fedora-list, and like to think this may be a general support
> forum akin to freebsd-users ... is this a good place to ask questions
> and generally get some good advice?  Or is there a better place to go to
> try to answer my questions?  What I would totally vote for (and I looked
> around the Bugzilla / wiki and maybe I'll complete suggesting it) is a
> little link on http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/ which says "How to Solve
> Problems and Where to Get Support" ... 
> 
> Anyway, once I receive a few messages and get procmail tuned up, I will
> have some questions to post here.  I hope this is the place ... hello,
> everyone! :)

Welcome, Danny!  I think you'll find Fedora a lot of fun.

I'm sure you've read it, but this is very helpful:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Cheers!
Thomas




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