FNU #13, Fedora docs
Fedora News Updates #13 is out. By far, the largest ever (not that this is the first time its a three-week summary). 18901 bytes. It’s getting mighty hard to write it with so many posts – start contributing folk, especially trawl fedora-list…
Fragmenting the Fedora documentation isn’t a good idea – we need a FreeBSD handbook or a Gentoo manual style of documents. Useful, something end-users, and advanced developers can always depend on, reliable, and consistient. A grand plan at some stage will be to move things like the Fedora unofficial FAQ/newbie install guide over to some Fedora docs project site. Currently we have many editors, but not many things to edit :( Is it learning DocBook XML that stops many? Or is it CVS that scares you? I’ve begun hanging out at #fedora-docs, though hardly much gets said there…
How about this: I got a little “urgent” e-mail, with a phone number, asking me to call them, so that their OpenOffice.org woes would go away. Anyone else gotten requests like this?
Are you interested in interesting threads from FedoraForum as well?
If they are interesting threads, that aren’t covered in the lists, and hopefully, not covered in another FNU issue, sure, but I definitely can’t cope up with reading the forums as well. The lists are killer enough :)
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