Introduction

[Michael Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Introduction
From: Hunter Bukowski <the_fine_print at hotmail.com>
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Date: 02/19/2009 12:53 PM

> Hi,
>      I'm Danny, a grad student in psychology in Chicago and have a lot 
> of basic hardware and software experience but Unix and Linux are still a 
> little new to me.  I'm not afraid of a command prompt--  I grew up with 
> DOS.  When I have technical problems I am resourceful, patient, 
> analytical and able to fix them or find the help I need online.

Greetings!

> I feel easily-accessible, browseable and 
> searchable documentation is critical to making Fedora more user-friendly. 
> 

I could not agree more. Not every project has documentation, although 
Fedora (and some projects) have been getting better at providing it. In 
that documentation it is in multiple different formats (man, info, html, 
and more) that are not easily searchable or formatted well. Gnome's 
"yelp" browser is adequate for the time being, but it is not highly 
advertised -- "man program" is still the defacto standard for finding 
out the ins and outs of a program. This works great on headless servers 
or UNIX-grown folks, but for Desktop users (who are growing in large 
numbers) the documentation is about the only thing left lacking on 
providing a friendly and enjoyable experience.

Example: NetworkManager

Can anyone point to me documentation located on my *local* system that 
details what the nm-applet procedures are to add a static IP or VPN to 
an interface? You can't! Do you see any "Help" buttons in nm-applet? No!


Anyways, welcome to Fedora,
Michael