Introduction

[Rahul Sundaram]

Karsten Wade wrote:

> I think it's worth noting the ideal and actual usage, yes.  We probably
> don't need to specify all of what is in a directly, that's what 'ls' is
> for.  But we can give people some clever steps to learn more, e.g.:
> 
> "To find out what a binary 'foo' is, there are several methods of
> research:
> 
> man foo
> 
> or
> 
> info foo
> 
> show manual and info pages for 'foo'.  
> 
> Since software in Fedora all comes in a package, looking to see where
> 'foo' came from can be useful:
> 
> which foo
> /usr/bin/foo
> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/foo
> foo-2.7-1.3.fc6
> 
> Packages also have some useful information, especially where the binary
> is a non-obvious component in a larger package:
> 
> rpm -qi foo
> 
> To find out what other packages need that package:
> 
> rpm -q --whatrequires foo
> 

I already documented some of this in 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.

> Are we including NTFS now?

Yes, we are. The userspace ntfs-3g is now in Fedora Extras.

Rahul