[Infopoint] One page Linux manual for Manchester infopoint

[James Holden]

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Paul Waring wrote:
| I was wondering if anyone who is going to the Manchester infopoint (or
| any other infopoint afterwards) thinks it's a good idea to print off
| some simple reference sheets along the lines of the One Page Linux Manual:
|
| http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~squadron/

It's a good cheat sheet, but maybe a bit too techie (and therefore
off-putting) for Linux newbies. The new distros are very point-and-click
with little need to resort to stuff like xvidtune or queueing prints
with lpr.

| We could then distribute these sheets free with any CDs people buy, or
| charge a nominal fee (say 10p) for photocopying costs. This would
| hopefully help people to actually get to grips with Linux faster,
| because the commands for the common tasks they would perform would be
| easily available.

Well, copying is cheap these days and I'm sure somebody can
misappropriate their office copier! I think I'd feel a bit cheap asking
for 10p off people. You could just have a donations tin maybe.

I provided the CDs free of charge at the Leeds one yesterday because I
get them cheap enough anyway through fastdiscs. I did put a small (1
inch tall) ad on our flyer though, and even that had a 10% off discount
code in it. Not like I was trying to capitalise on the event though,
even though we do kick cheeplinux's ass. 8-)

| Is this a good idea or not? I'm prepared to write the cheat sheet and
| get some photocopies done in time for the Manchester infopoint if people
| think it's worthwhile, and I can send a PDF of the finished document to
| anyone who wants to use it elsewhere.

Knoppix has a cheat sheet with boot parameters in case it falls over
during hardware detection. That might be useful.

Drop your one over by email and I'll host it if you like.

James


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