Re: Website info request

[Age Bosma <agebosma home nl>]

Henry Hartley wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 at 11:49 AM, Age said:
>
> > > I want to start using Linux and at this stage Fedora is the one I
> > > would like to give a try.
> > >
> > > When browsing the website I found that 2 important things are
> > > missing:
> > >
> > > - Package info
> > > I wasn't able to find a page which gave me some info about what
> > > each disc actually contains. Are all 4 disc necessary to be able
> > > to install Fedora? Since the distribution is 4 disc big in total,
> > > providing this info might reduce the amount of downloads if not
> > > all disc are realy necessary.
>
>
> You can see a list of packages:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora
> /RPMS/
>
> although that won't tell you what is on which CD.  A minimal install
> doesn't require all the CDs but you're probably better off just biting
> the bullet and getting them all.

Too bad...
Any chance that the packages are going to be grouped onto the different 
disc a bit more in the future to be able to tell beforehand which cd's 
you rely need and which you can exclude? Downloading all discs isn't 
realy a problem for me, it just saves some resources (less downloads, 
less disc have to be burned, etc.).

> > > - Support
> > > There is no obvious location on the site with support info. I'm
> > > not even sure this mailing list is the one I should send this
> > > stuff to. A page with at least mailing list info would be handy
> > > to have.
>
>
> Information on the various mailing lists is here:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/
>
> Pick a mailing list from that page and you'll get, among other things, a
> link to the list archives.  This does seem like the right one for
> questions of this sort.

That's what I was looking for! Cheers :-)
Maybe it's an idea to create a section excluding the dev info and 
placing it under the About section or something as well. It just seems a 
bit more obvious to me.

> > > At this stage there aren't any docs available about how to
> > > install/use Fedora, only docs about how to write docs, am I
> > > right?  This was a bit confusing to me.  It might be usefull
> > > to say this on the website to prevent people from getting
> > > confused or to prevent unnecessary digging in the site in
> > > case they think it's "hidden" somewhere by accident.
>
>
> There are a few sources of documentation.  I'd start with the release
> notes:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/
>
> The unofficial Fedora FAQ is also a useful site:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/
>
> and of course, a LOT of questions get answered on this list so the
> archives are a good source for problem resolution:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
>
> If you don't find answers in any of those locations (or a Google
> search), post specific questions here and you'll get either an answer or
> a pointer to an answer.  I hope that helps and welcome to the world of
> Fedora Core.

Haha, thank you very much for the info. Much appreciated.
Again, maybe it's a good idea to create a Link section as well with 
these kind of external resources.

Age