Talk:Fedora-Installation

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Ya know, this makes me think... if people ask questions like this, they can be used as Yellow Flags that point out particular issues with a distro. Even though it may be in the wrong place, it's not wrong to ask it! And it should be appreciated.

Do we have a place for questions? It seems like a good idea. -Atticus, aka Mike Schwager

I expect that a main page like Fedora-Installation will end up being the focus for such questions. The way that wikipedia deals with these focus pages is to use them to jump off to various sub-topics such as in this case questions about hardware issues. These disambiguation pages (see Disambiguation ) help push people to the page they really need.

--Richardpitt 13:21, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)

At the moment, people are jumping in and hoping that people will solve their problems. This is slightly off-topic in that its useful, but really we want to know what caused the confusion in the first place. A sort of root-cause analysis exercise. We could link bug tracking pages to support users directly, and retain focus on fundamental product weaknesses.

I think knowledgeable editors could help by boiling down this type of ask/answer cycle into a focused observation about a particular issue and then report it to the project bug tracker, if only to save space here.

--Sjgibbs 18:53, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Key issues for me as a long-time windows user

1. Simple instructions on accessing my linux box from any of my windows machines, via ssh, not telnet, so that I don't have to be physically present at my linux machine all the time -- e.g., on windows machine: install cygwin, startxwin.bat, etc.; on Linux machine: whatever. Pick some simple scenario; for me at least I can usually get it after I have a working example.

2. Ditto for Samba -- all I want to do is be able to access the drives on my linux box from any of my windows machines, and vice-versa. After some reading, it appears that I need to activate both a samba server and a samba client, but the number of options is so large (which is fine for an IT group, but not for my seven-machine home network) as to be overwhelming. A little bit of advice re the fact that user names on linux are lower case, whereas on Windows most of us (well, at least me) always initial-cap a user name.

3. Ditto for updates, so that the machine can be kept up-to-date relatively painlessly. I think RedHat's up2date process would be reasonable if it weren't so slow that the connection times out. Manually configuring yum to point to some other site is something I would not have known how to even begin to do without my son's help.

Overall, I find a lot of the help only works if you're already on-board with many of the linux procedures and concepts; it would be wonderful to have a "newbie" help, which would need to be separate so it didn't irritate experienced users.