Would the Fedora website be useful for this?
Let's say a link to a "Support" section would be convienent. There a user
could find what (s)he needs: items that are on the site or links to other help sites.
PatrickM
--- On Wed 11/05, Andy Green < fedora(a)warmcat.com > wrote:
From: Andy Green [mailto: fedora(a)warmcat.com]
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:13:25 +0000
Subject: Re: Extreme pain trying to report bugs with Fedora Test 3
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>On Wednesday 05
November 2003 10:48, Mike A. Harris wrote:<br><br>> Perhaps we should make
that clearer for newer users who aren't<br>> necessarily already familiar
with Red Hat or Fedora Core (and<br>> previously Red Hat Linux). The default
Mozilla page having a<br>> link to where to report bugs, or the GUI starting up
with a<br>> message like that would be a good idea, as well as a<br>>
bugzilla.redhat.com hyperlink on the desktop.<br>><br>> What does
everyone else think?<br><br>Definitely... the desktop link is a real winner
since people will notice it <br>and ignore it, but know where to find it when they
need it. Another link to <br>the main Fedora site would be great too, especially if
it was a subpage that <br>had a bunch of hints and topics for newbies, like
"where can I get MP3 <br>support" and "how can I play mpg movies on
Fedora"? These are going to be <br>the questions in literally millions of
minds after!
install. These folks <br>didn't read about the history of Fedora and don't
understand the project <br>structure and reasons for restrictions, they just want to
play MP3s and if <br>they can't do that 10 minutes after install the OS is
broken in their view. <br>So finding some way to point to the necessary packages in
third party <br>repositories, with whatever disclaimers, would be a great thing.
<br><br>And you don't have to worry about the DOJ, since unlike MSFT being
pulled up <br>for links on its default desktop, ANYONE can wrap the OS to create
their own <br>version with their own links FOC.<br><br>-
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