On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Ricky Zhou<ricky(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
The difference between the type of documentation that Kishan made
and
our official docs is something that I've been thinking about lately.
While there definitely is a place for a comprehensive install guide
that covers every single installation case, perhaps it'd be nice to have
a shorter, less intimidating version that goes through the defaults that
most brand new users would go through.
Yes, a very good point brought up. A new user just wants *simple*
steps that would guide him through the installation process.
As an example of what I mean, openSUSE has some friendly,
screenshot-filled install guides that they link off of their download
page:
http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Local
http://en.opensuse.org/Installation/11.1_Live_CD
Does something similar to this exist in Fedora? Having such small
guides would be very good for new users.
one striking fact that I noticed is that even with those tall
screenshots, both of those pages are not much larger than just the table
of contents page of our install guide
(
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/).
Sure, those pages don't cover the install process even nearly as
completely as our docs do, but from the perspective of a new user who
just wants to go with the defaults and get to a working system, that
style of documentation seems *really* nice.
I'm very interested to hear what you guys think about that - would
Zikula perhaps make it any easier or nicer to manage smaller documents
like these?
Zikula... I need to get googling... for not having followed the
activites of the team of late.
Regards,
Kishan Goyal.