On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The advantage of a gui system is that most of what your family already > knows from windows works very nearly identically. The bits that don't > they can google or ask you and you can google. > > For example, the setup of the system has several good step by step > guidelines on Fedora.org. Your browser, firefox, has a link that will > take you to the Fedora website, and there are links there to various > support bits. Each application, Firefox, OpenOffice (or OO), the > various games and all applications each have their own supporting > groups, most are supported by one of the code development sites, and > they support manuals, training links and Frequently Asked Questions > (FAQs) to help novices on their software get up and running. > > Fedora is unique only because it rotates software frequently, about > every 18 months for the release cycle with about 36 months support. So > if you go to Fedora 13 today, it will be fully supported for another > year roughly before Fedora 14 comes out, and then supported for 18 > months after that. The reasons to upgrade are due to the evolution of > protection against attacks, new and better (we hope) software, and new > developments in general related to computing. > > So to advise you, any question in computing can be answered, but first > you have to phrase the exact question you want answered. Fedora is a > support organization for one particular flavor of the Linux Operating > System. The things you do on a computer are applications. Fedora > gathers a common subset of these applications and publishes the works as > a release of Linux. Fedora as a group supports the OS. The > applications are supported by their own Special Interest Groups, which > are hosted on various software development sites. You can ask here to > get guidance to some sites that support the application, and sometimes > you can get very specific answers, but the applications are truly > supported by their own groups. > > Just as if you bought Adobe Photoshop for your Microsoft system, you > would have to go to Adobe to get specific answers about Photoshop. > > The best part if you have any budding computer scientists, is that the > full source code of the entire system is available to examine, compile > yourself and work on to see which piece does what. > > Thank you for joining the Fedora community, and I hope you find us > helpful. Yes, everything correct. Thanks. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
