Ubuntu 10.04 to Include Beginner's Manual

[A Guy]

The Ubuntu Forums are helpful, if slightly chaotic. The wikis are better organized, but inconsistent and occasionally outdated. Now a team of users and contributors to the free Linux distribution have organized to create a beginner's manual for Ubuntu, to be included by default with the next release (Lucid Lynx) in April. The manual aims to include "comprehensive guides, how-tos and information on anything you need to know after first installing Ubuntu," and is, as you might imagine, being written in wiki form, so anyone can contribute. What newcomer topics and how-tos would you like to see covered in an Ubuntu manual?

http://lifehacker.com/5441494/ubuntu-1004-to-include-beginners-manual

A Guy

[hellnoire]

Nice addiction but it should be said that if you need help, Google and the Ubuntu forums are the best for helping people.

[kv777]

Nice addition for quick reference and helps people without internet still!

[kgaurav]

Thanks for info.

[hellnoire]

Nice addition for quick reference and helps people without internet still!

That makes me chuckle a bit, because to get Ubuntu for the most part, you need internet.

[kv777]

That makes me chuckle a bit, because to get Ubuntu for the most part, you need internet.

thats why i stopped using it before...when i installed 8.04.i was not able to do anything without internet.i got the install cd from my friend and but no help in using it

[hellnoire]

But why would you use it if you can't access the internet?

Updates, customization, nearly everything is impossible without the net. You're using a stock system and would be stuck with it unless you have the internet.

Having a how-to connect guide would be best if you ask me, but that's my two cents.

[kv777]

Updates, customization, nearly everything is impossible without the net. You're using a stock system and would be stuck with it unless you have the internet.

i always used windows(without internet) before and i thought linux can also be used by that way but it didnt work for me

[hellnoire]

Because it needs internet. To install anything, it has to be supported, and if you don't have the prerequisites and don't have it, how do you expect to get it?

I'm sorry, I still don't see it as overly useful. Especially when people don't even look at the documentation of Windows, what makes Canonical think they'll actually have people look at this, eh?

[kv777]

actually that was my first lesson in linux and installed it again only after getting internet!
and anyway i have to agree that forums are best place to get help because one can get solutions from different people!