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    A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    You may have noticed that in the past 24 hours, I haven't been my crazy usual self, posting all over the place.

    I've been busy trying to put together a basic user guide (a PDF). It's very rudimentary, so hold off on the criticism for now. I'm trying to refine it a bit more over the next month.

    I'm just writing to let you know it exists and to ask if anyone wants to host it in a mirror site (my bandwidth limit isn't that much, and the file's about 500k).

    Right now it lives at http://www.psychocats.net/linux/ubun...uide_05.11.pdf

    My plan is for it to be revised and re-released every month.

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    I like it but I know what the wiki crew is going to say....
    The same as when people wanted to resurrect the Starter Guide.

    Naturally there is a good argument for a degree of centralization.
    I do hope we at least link to it from the wiki when the hosting is stable.
    /path/to/Truth

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Last edited by aysiu; November 26th, 2005 at 03:34 AM.
    So... a 1337 java programmer walks into a bar...

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Quote Originally Posted by Xian
    I like it but I know what the wiki crew is going to say....
    The same as when people wanted to resurrect the Starter Guide.

    Naturally there is a good argument for a degree of centralization.
    I do hope we at least link to it from the wiki when the hosting is stable.
    I understand the idea of not duplicating efforts, but I do believe there is a niche to be filled and the Wiki cannot be easily printed out as a PDF (some would argue it can't be easily navigated even).

    I liked the Ubuntu Guide when it was still being maintained. The Wiki is a noble idea, but sometimes other approaches better reach certain users.

    Quote Originally Posted by benplaut
    Thanks! I really appreciate it.

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Looks good. The short blurb on the command line was a nice touch and I learned a new trick there with xkill. What I sould like to see (and if I get some free time may actully do) would be a DOS to Linux command equivilant list for us noobs that started out in the bad old DOS days!

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Quote Originally Posted by firenurse4
    Looks good. The short blurb on the command line was a nice touch and I learned a new trick there with xkill. What I sould like to see (and if I get some free time may actully do) would be a DOS to Linux command equivilant list for us noobs that started out in the bad old DOS days!
    I do recognize that's a need. I probably won't do a comprehensive one. Maybe just a quickie on commonly used commands and then link to a site that has a whole bunch of commands. Thanks for the tip.

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    nice job, pictures are a +.
    Excuse for excessive game playing, #4:
    "Game? No, I think this is some kind of
    computer virus that has taken over the screen.
    I've been trying to get rid of it all day."

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Nice guide!
    But the some pictures are not well! repair it.

    Dima

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Quote Originally Posted by DimaIL
    But the some pictures are not well! repair it.
    What do you mean by "not well"? Can you be more specific?

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    Re: A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

    Quote Originally Posted by aysiu
    What do you mean by "not well"? Can you be more specific?
    I think he means, the pictures are not resized well (look distorted), at least I see them this way.
    Excuse for excessive game playing, #4:
    "Game? No, I think this is some kind of
    computer virus that has taken over the screen.
    I've been trying to get rid of it all day."

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