On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jeff Garey wrote: > Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the > same experience...several years experience with computers, and a > little programming, and a technical background in communications. > Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job. Documentation > geared towards the novice user would be of great help. > > Jeff, a novice Debian Linux User >
Hi y'all, There is a half-finished Debian Tutorial to be found at http://pobox.com/~hp. The writing isn't moving very fast at the moment; however, what's there may be useful, and feedback would be wonderful. You are 100% right of course, Debian is not really very good for novices at the moment, and the lack of docs doesn't help. Unfortunately there are all kinds of "Easy Linux" efforts, and not many "Easy Linux" results. Hopefully the situation will be remedied over the next year or two, from both the documentation and the interface point of view. You might want to keep an eye on the GNOME project (www.gnome.org) though it's not ready for prime time just yet and still requires a fairly complex manual compilation since there's no debian package. When you are no longer novices, just remember what it was like, and contribute a section to the docs. ;-) Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
