I'll be at the meeting. I think that's a good topic. The problem with
a book like that is you might need to make a different version for each
distro, since the configuration tools/guis are different for each. I
actually have seen a lot of distro specific books with point-and-click
examples. What there need to be more of are beginning-to-intermediate
linux guides explaining how things work in words easier to understand
and more complete than man pages. Most of the technical documentation in
linux is so completely poor that I would pay for better docs.
On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 14:34, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> Is there any special presentation planned for the Sarasota meeting
> Wednesday?
>
> If not -- or perhaps afterwards in a nearby bar -- I'd like to do a
> little brain-picking about what exactly should be in a book tentatively
> titled "Point and Click Linux" I'm about to start writing for Prentice
> Hall, probably under the Sams imprint.
>
> This book won't be for you super-geeks, but will be something you give
> to relatives/coworkers getting started with Linux so they won't
> constantly ask you questions. In other words, a "'fine manual" you can
> tell them to read. There sure as bleep ain't one out there now that's
> useful for people who just want to learn the minimum pointy-clicky stuff
> to use Linux as a home or office desktop OS, not get deluged with
> command line obscurity...
>
> - Robin
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