A PDF Ubuntu Beginner's Guide

[aysiu]

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.

[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.

[benplaut]

no bandwidth limit, here ya go:

http://box.net/public/benplaut/dfile...uide_05.11.pdf

[aysiu]

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.

no bandwidth limit, here ya go:

http://box.net/public/benplaut/dfile...uide_05.11.pdf

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

[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!

[aysiu]

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.

[cdhotfire]

nice job, pictures are a +.

[DimaIL]

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

Dima

[aysiu]

But the some pictures are not well! repair it.

What do you mean by "not well"? Can you be more specific?

[cdhotfire]

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.