Link for new fedora users

[Gavin Henry]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:21, Mike Lurk wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2004 18:32, Mike Lurk wrote:
> > Here is a Link for all New Fedora users. It has a lot of tips and
> > HOW-TO's. It's a good starting point. If the answer you are looking
>
> for
>
> > is not there then come back and ask.
> >
> > http://fedoranews.org/
>
> Thanks for this. I am Gavin Henry, one of the writers. We have various
> great
> features on the site and it is regularly updated.
>
> > A lot of questions asked here on this mailing list are answered there.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > P.S. I am not trying to be mean or anything but too many questions are
> > being asked that have already been covered. This link provide most of
> > the answers to the questions being asked. So all the newbies check out
> > the link first. Some of the how-tos are a little out dated but are
>
> still
>
> > valid.
>
> I would interested to hear which howtos/tutorials are out of date? I am
> about
> to update the review and howto on Mozilla Firebird to the new Firefox
> and
> also another one on nvu (www.nvu.com) and amanda.
>
> Again which ones in particular?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gavin.
>
> - --
> Regards
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> Doh! My mistake, it has been updated since the last time I looked at it.
> Also, it seems that I did not look close enough the first time I looked
> at the site. I didn't notice the arrows, to go to the next page for that
> tutorial. You might want to mention on the Acrobat reader tutorial there
> is a good site that has already prepackaged the files.
>
> http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html

I was going to mention that one. :-)

>
> It also has others as well. Check it out.
>
> There is one tutorial that you might want to consider, that is a how-to
> on installing ALSA. I know ALSA will be included with FC2 test 1 but how
> many people will go that route right away. If you need help with the
> tutorial let me know.

We have a contributors section. Why don't you have a go?

>
> One more thing you should mention to users it is better to download from
> a mirror site other than the Fedora site, its very slow at times, very
> busy ( unless I missed that as well).

I think that this covered in Thomas' yum tutorial.

>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Mike

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