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GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome

Posted by Hemos on from the pushing-the-world-further-along dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Writing at LinuxWorld, Groklaw's PJ asks "What Do Newbies Need to Make the Switch to GNU/Linux? and invites the world - literally - to help with answering the question, by participating in the wiki she and some colleagues have just launched. GrokDoc aims to turn the usual process on its head: "Instead of experts telling newbies how to do things, we will let newbies show and tell us what they need." Might be a fantastic way to help push Linux still further toward that fabled tipping-point."

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  1. The Linux Documentation Project by anandpur · · Score: 0, Troll

    Users need to be educated, there is no alternative. If thay have to change ip address then it is not going to be easy anyway. either build stupid proof s/w of live with bit difficult to follow documentation. You can not makes it easied than peoples did at The Linux Documentation Project

  2. Here's a suggestion by Apostata · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop calling people newbies you arrogant bastard.

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  3. Re:So are you saying... by admdrew · · Score: 0, Troll
    Greate way of judging the usability of modern day linux distros by refering to distros from 4 years back.

    First off, Psyche (Red Hat 8.0) was released in September or October of 2002, which I believe is less than 4 years ago ;) (try this if you don't believe me).

    Second, those are the distributions I've run on my own personal machine, certainly not the only I've used (of course, it's my bad for not mentioning that previously).

    And as far as Red Hat distros go, I've tried 9 and the first Fedora Core, and ultimately I enjoyed using 8 over both of those.


    It's amusing to see how fast I'm labled a Microsoft fanboy and Linux n00b when I don't preach fervent devotion to Linus, et al...

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