I'm not so sure that this fits in Chp. 9. As other people mentioned before,
the chapter is already growing pretty fast.
pon poff seems like a setup issue, not trouble-shooting.
perhaps it would fit better in installation? a whole section on how to
connect to the internet might be appropriate.
Ela
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Section 7.1 suggests that using sudo is the same as logging in as root.
A beginner may easily confuse them. sudo Is used to execute commands as
another user. We probably need better explanation about the concept of a
super-user and why it is dangerous to even have a super-user
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Section 7.1 suggests that the shell and the terminal are the same.
The terminal provides input and output functionality while the shell
processes the user's commands. the uses accesses the shell by means of a
terminal. They are two distinct concepts implemented by two distinc
Different note:
I'm writing up a guide to restoring GRUB after a windows install.
Technically, it is much easier to leave the windows bootloader alone and but
GRUB on / instead of in the MBR. It involved much less interpretation of
terminal outputs.
However, I don't think this is considered best p
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 17:29 +1300, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> I don't think anyone has modified the logo colour?
In the third design , the logo colors of the centered one are stylized.
Not that it doesnt look good... its just we aernt allowed to do that :)
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I branched, ran make, edited the chapter 9 tex, made again, committed,
pulled, merged, committed and pushed. The tree should be on launchpad. I
suspect the make screwed it up.
Sorry!
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> Heh no worries, leave it to us to fix. Just so we k
Hi all,
Just like to remind you about the meeting this Saturday - while it's
technically not a "meeting" but a brief, we will be making some more
decisions about things like margin notes, in line notes, credit format,
footer and headers, indentation, page type, screenshot resolution, glossary
and
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I don't think anyone has modified the logo colour?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Vishnoo wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:36 +0200, David Nel wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> > I am new to Ubuntu / Linux and have looked at the Ubuntu Manual
> > project. I have put together a cover proposal but
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:36 +0200, David Nel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> I am new to Ubuntu / Linux and have looked at the Ubuntu Manual
> project. I have put together a cover proposal but have no idea how to
> submit it? I don't want to go breaking any wiki pages so any help
> offered it great.
>
Sure, ideas for someone to assign?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jamin Day
> wrote:
> Also I have a feeling that if we are not careful this could become quite an
> overwhelming chapter, as there are so many possible ways to write this.
>
> It would be great for people to chip in some ideas on
Heh no worries, leave it to us to fix. Just so we know what went wrong,
could you tell me what changes you made that you think could have caused it?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Elan Kugelmass wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> I think I may have broken our trunk for ubuntu-manual. I tried to start
>
On 01/12/2010 08:07 PM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> I'll add it to the history of Linux.
>
I find Wikipedia has a good page on what Ubuntu is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29
Perhaps some of that couldbe reused and save the editors/writers some
time & effort.
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- Possible troubleshoot topics:
- Why can't I double-boot (anymore)?
- How can I set file-permissions?
- I forgot my password
- The login screen doesn't load
+ Now sketching out the chapter at the wiki!
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https
Also I have a feeling that if we are not careful this could become quite an
overwhelming chapter, as there are so many possible ways to write this.
It would be great for people to chip in some ideas on the wiki, but it also
might be worth having a second person assigned to help Elan research and
w
I also recommend searching online to see what problems people tend to
experience with Ubuntu, and looking at other books/articles on the topic.
For example, see the list at
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=667418
(it's from a copyrighted book, so please don't copy anything out of t
Gidday,
Cheers Jamin for answering :)
Yeah basically Elan the aim for Chapter 9 is to pretty much answer a lot of
the commonly asked questions that you find floating around the Absolute
Beginner forum on UF. These are things like "how do I enable flash" "I can't
play .wmv or .mp3s" etc etc
I've
Brett,
Be sure to check out the Quickly project (https://launchpad.net/quickly)
or what they're doing on Ubuntu-Docs team
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-docs) as there might be more places to
contribute your knowledge and time.
Thanks.
Matt
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 16:50 -0800, Ilya Haykinson wrot
I'll add it to the history of Linux.
Thanks
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Blueprint changed by Elan Kugelmass:
Whiteboard changed:
- NEW CONTENT: A whole NEW section on "Learning more about Linux" that
- covers << Other distributions, Linux servers, Free software, Where you
- can get help >> and then the OLD chapter 9 extra apps list.
+ Possible troubleshoot topics:
+ W
Brett,
Thanks for offering to help!
The manual is currently targeting complete Ubuntu novices, computer novices,
and in general a non-technical audience. Given that, we wouldn't want to
expose them to the more advanced topics such as the ones you are describing.
If you have some extra time to he
Hi Elan,
The aim for this section is to build the chapter around providing some
tips/solutions to common problems that new Ubuntu users often run into. We
are not talking mega-complex things here, it will be more like "why can't I
dual-boot anymore after reinstalling windows (ie restoring GRUB)",
I'm interested in helping get the manual done, and even in taking the lead
on chapter 9, but I don't know exactly what the dream is for this chapter.
The blueprint specification is devoid of information.
Can someone give me some pointers? Thanks
Elan
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I'm writing Chapter 10, which includes a section on "Other Linux
Distros". It might be best off being mentioned there, but I do agree
that a passing mention in the prologue could be useful.
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Well, as the writer of chapter 5 I am glad you noticed my mention :)
But yes, I think it is very important that this piece of information
gets cleared out to a bigger extend and earlier in the book. As far as I
know, the project founder Benjamin Humphrey is working on the prologue,
and judging by
** Description changed:
i quickly searched the manual and found no mention of Ubuntu being
Debian-based
closest i found was this
"These are known as "debs" and are inherited from Ubuntu’s ascendant, Debian."
but that is way later in chapter 5
my suggestion:
some mention in "A Br
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i quickly searched the manual and found no mention of Ubuntu being Debian-based
closest i found was this
"These are known as "debs" and are inherited from Ubuntu’s ascendant, Debian."
but that is way later in chapter 5
my suggestion:
some mention in "A Brief History of Ubunt
Is there going to be a section about doing programming or web
development or running web servers in Ubuntu? I can help out in that
area.
In fact, if you check my homepage, I've written 4 articles for
fullcirclemagazine.org regarding that topic.
http://brettalton.com/?page=computer_services
Let m
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:34 +, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> Working on it
>
Sorry, please ignore my previous reply
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On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:34 +, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> Working on it
>
yup
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Sorry John, forgot to add you.
I will put you on chapter 8 if that's ok, so now we only need editors for
chapters 6 and 10.
John - please confirm whether this is ok with you when you get the chance.
JaminDay
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Jamin Day wrote:
> Hello editors,
>
> If you check t
Hello editors,
If you check the ToC in the wiki here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/TableOfContents you will notice I have
added some of your names to various chapters (according to the formatting at
the top). That is, the first name written in large print is the name of the
allocated writ
În data de Mi, 13-01-2010 la 09:26 +1300, Benjamin Humphrey a scris:
> Hello,
Hi,
I am happy to see such efforts. Hope it will shape up nicely.
[snip]
> As you may have noticed, we've received quite a lot of contributors,
> interest and media attention. In turn, we are definitely on track for
> a
I will def. help out. Hopefully we can find some sort of latex to docbook
converter program.
--Joe Burgess
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(703) 402-9206
On Jan 12, 2010 6:33 AM, "Jamin Day"
>
wrote:
Sounds great! I will be more than happy to help out with the transposing
side of things into docboo
Awesome response Joe. xD
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Joe Burgess wrote:
> Ours will be 100x better
>
> --Joe Burgess
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> (703) 402-9206
>
> On Jan 12, 2010 3:56 AM, "Benjamin Humphrey" wrote:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/PDFs
>
> Have a look at that - it
Ours will be 100x better
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On Jan 12, 2010 3:56 AM, "Benjamin Humphrey" wrote:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/PDFs
Have a look at that - it's an Ubuntu Manual made by Canonical and the
community, but it's not under Creative Commons Share
Working on it
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Thanks for volunteering!
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On Jan 11, 2010 9:37 PM, "Brett Alton" wrote:
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I also thought it was still going to be included in 10.04, then maybe
replaced in 10.10 or later, although happy to be corrected.
Is there any way we can confirm this?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:10 AM, pererik87 wrote:
> i read a post where they said it would be in Software center for those
> mi
Hello,
Firstly, let me apologize - I believe the Manual and Docs Team may have got
off on the wrong foot. I'd just like to make it clear that we are not in
competition with the docs team, and we aren't trying to insinuate that you
aren't doing your job correctly. I've changed some of the justifica
i read a post where they said it would be in Software center for those
missing it
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Are you sure it's removed in Lucid?
I thought the ultimate goal for the project is to replace Synaptic by
10.10 - not 10.04. Synaptic is a huge program to replace, and, I haven't
seen much active development on the Software Center for a while now.
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Check out the main page of Ubuntu Forums and see if you can spot our feature
:)
http://ubuntuforums.org/
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Chapter 5 -> "Synaptic Package Manager" This is removed from lucid.
Maybe it should stand that its possible to get older versions of
software center like "add remove" and "Synaptic Package Manager" by
installing through SC, instead.
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Hi there,
I am new to Ubuntu / Linux and have looked at the Ubuntu Manual project. I
have put together a cover proposal but have no idea how to submit it? I
don't want to go breaking any wiki pages so any help offered it great.
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Sounds great! I will be more than happy to help out with the transposing
side of things into docbook for the learning project, once we get this
release out the door.
It's great to see that we are beginning to collaborate with some other
projects, and get the Manual some more attention in the proce
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Hm, this is great news.. It seems that the project is finally going
official.
About ground control.. what a great idea! I imagine that Martin has
something in mind similar to the autorun button that appears on a bar in
nautilus when you open a cd/dvd, but instead with push and pull
buttons... nice
Nice work team!
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:07 +1300, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> Thanks to Martin Owens, we have now been the subject of a blog post on
> Planet Ubuntu :)
>
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>
> Ubuntu Manual Project Leader
> Dunedin, New Zealand
>
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual
>
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/PDFs
Have a look at that - it's an Ubuntu Manual made by Canonical and the
community, but it's not under Creative Commons Share Alike, so it cannot be
edited or copied or redistributed anywhere.
It's also rather old.
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Ubuntu Manual Project L
Thanks to Martin Owens, we have now been the subject of a blog post on
Planet Ubuntu :)
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Ubuntu Manual Project Leader
Dunedin, New Zealand
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www.interesting.co.nz
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