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Linux Desktop Guide

Posted by michael on from the man-man dept.

codergeek42 writes "The International Open-Source Network has created a desktop manual aimed at end-users with little or no prior knowledge of PCs. This manual goes through using The Fedora Project to do things from file-management to using the internet (as in browsing the WWW and using email), how to use the OpenOffice.org office suite, and even a basic intro to using the shell. This is definitely a step in the right direction for GNU/Linux, and the Free Software and Open-Source Software movements. And the cool part is that the entire thing is under an attributions-required OSI-approved Creative Common license, and is available in .sxw (OpenOffice.org Writer) or PDF formats."

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  1. Re:Good step. by Reorax · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "___ for Dummies" line probably has something that's pretty good. I have their "Redhat For Dummies" book and it did a good job of leading me through installation and use before I knew anything about Linux. This was for Red Hat 8, but they probably have something more updated by now.

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  2. Re:Fedora ??!!?? by pphrdza · · Score: 5, Informative
    Though slashdotted, if you actually get through you'd see
    Linux has many distributions and sometimes the programs or tools used to perform a certain function can vary from distribution to distribution. This guide tries to be as generic as possible in the description of the features and functionalities. However, in some cases, especially some of the GUI desktop configuration tools, there is no really independent generic tool that can be used and each distribution has its own tool. In such cases, we have tried to illustrate their usage using Fedora Linux
    This guide was written on a Fedora Linux system and as such many of the screen shots reflect this. However, this should not be construed as an endorsement of this distribution of Linux over the others on the part of the authors.
    Fedora's desktop is used for screenshots and examples, but it isn't a guide to Fedora.
  3. Re:Uh... Fedora? by bit01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try SuSE 9.1. Almost all point and click. Uses RPM under the hood but installing security/recommended updates online is easy:

    1. Click System/YaST on the main menu. YaST is the equivalent of the MSWindows ControlPanel.
    2. Enter the root password and click OK.
    3. Click Software/Online Update.
    4. Click Next to accept the default source site.
    5. Click Accept to accept the default set of patches.
    6. Click Finish to finalise patch installation. I've seen one patch that required a reboot.

    9.1 was released recently so updates should be available for a while yet.

    I've no connection to SuSE other than as a satisfied user.

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