Hi there,
Well as a complete newbie to linux and Debian. Perhaps i can point you and the devolops in the right direction.
A basic document. Covering all the things, you have to know. Would be useful. Lets call it, for newbies doc. :)
Covering very basic things like. You must have all relevent infomation for your computer. Processor, video card type, memory on the card. Refresh rates of monitor etc. So some kind of check list.
There are already docs for all this stuff. You just have to know where to look, although a newbie friendly kind of overview would be nice.
Then how to use Aptitude. Apt-get install and similiar commands. Plus the absolote minuim packages need. For some kind of friendly desktop.
Aptitude has help built in, man apt-get. As for your friendly desktop, you could select desktop from tasksel, although that will install alot of stuff.
ie- nautilus, sawfish, X window system and anyting else to get a basic desktop working. Would be very useful. :)
As you would not believe the amount of docs you have to read. For this infomation. I have read a whole book on linux. Which was only midly useful. As it dealt with stuff, i won't tackle till i am an more experienced user. Having just came from a windows enviroment. You have to relearn everything. I still feel like i have been throwen in the deep end. If it wasn't for this wonderful forum. I may have given up, before i even started.
Feel free to email me, for any other ideas.
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