On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:58, Thiers Botelho wrote: > As I was just now browsing thru my brand-new copy of Fedora News Updates > #13 at > > http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/issue13.shtml BTW, if there are issues with the FNU, cc'ing me on it would rock too, thanks :) > - my name is mentioned with a link to a dual-boot guide I wrote. > Let it be known that not a single response was posted to it, and AFAIK the > complete procedure is yet untested. Yes, but the more procedures we have, and thoughts the better. Anyways, I've gotten Andrew Clausen interested, so if any more folk pop up, I'm going to recommend them to Andrew - to the uninitiated, he's the author of parted > - there's also a link to a very thorough document posted by Jack > Aboutboul, described as " written by an anonymous author". I would add > that the first [failed] attempt to present this document was made by Jeff > Spaleta here > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00901.html Jef didn't write it, it was by someone who chose not to get flamed/credited > - and what's really important (sad ?) about this latter posting is > what Jeff says, _ . . . we broadcast a version of this widely . . . _ > > Well, if we consider fedoranews.org as being Fedora's official > _broadcasting station_ then we might consider that Jeff's proposal was > fulfilled. Unfortunately, fedoranews.org is *not* the official broadcasting station > However . . . I suppose that most Fedora newbies's starting point is > Fedora's _real_ web site at redhat.com ; these folks will not get > acquainted with fedoranews.org until later on, when they start researching > lists and docs for specific purposes. That being the case, this important > broadcast won't reach its main audience until too late - when the > damage-which-is-no-real-damage-yet-but-is-about-to has already been done. Yes, I think this is true - this needs to be worked out as newbies need to know about the Fedora FAQ as well - I've known many a Fedora newbie (but a Linux expert) to be stuck a little, and would've definitely benfitted from the fedora faq or even fedoranews.org -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/
