fsckin.com — Ubuntu claims to be a “Linux for Human Beings,” and for the most part they actually do a good job of it. One place they fail miserably is in their release notes - they’re just too damn complicated for anyone who doesn’t know what all the different component names stand for. I decided to rewrite the release notes in simple language.
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quail20Mar 30, 2008
Probably Scribus?
fergyMar 30, 2008
This sounds very interesting:"We added in a program for making posters, signs, family tree charts, and everything else that you might think about taking to a print shop. Now we can save those files in a format that your print shop technician can use."But I have no clue where I would find this program in ubuntu. It would be a horrible description if he meant OpenOffice.org and pdf export.[edit] He meant Inkscape pdf[/edit]
thepxcMar 30, 2008
It's a beta release. The release notes are for _developers and testers_. When the stable release is out, they'll have an announcement with purty pictures and everything. Rewriting release notes for a beta release of _anything_ in "plain English" is a waste of time. All that does is give ignorant users that the beta release is intended for them. After all, someone took all the time and trouble to explain what those funny technical terms meant to them!
foltaggioMar 30, 2008
For newbies, that would be over HTTP.
webcrumbMar 30, 2008
The number of calls I got about Windows is why I installed Ubuntu on his machine. I've had two questions: which program is best for writing letters, what's the email program called.
chrisdangerMar 31, 2008
"Enjoy a better first-time installation experience with our improved screen settings detection system. If problems arise with display settings, your computer should be able to recover gracefully."This is nice. Hopefully it works. I've put Ubuntu on a number of different machines with different screens of course and have had tons of trouble with display drives, resolutions, screen position, etc. I don't know too much about that kind of stuff, but it doesn't seem like something too hard to fix, and hopefully they did this time.
spr0k3tApr 26, 2008
Go Speed-Humper! [/robot-chicken]