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Ned
1st September 2004, 05:45 AM
OK, so there aren't any :(

But, the Red Hat Linux 9 manuals are freely available for download in PDF, RPM and HTML format from the RedHat website:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/

For those that are new to fedora or have not come across these before, I thoroughly recommend you download these. There are 6 full books constituting over 1000 pages of high quality, easy to read and follow documentation covering almost every subject.

Although a lot of the packages have been updated to newer versions in Fedora, very little has fundamentally changed since RHL9 and the vast majority of the information in these manuals is still relevant. So, in the absence of decent documentation for Fedora - this is the next best thing :)

These manuals should be essential reading for ALL Fedora users :)

Ned

imdeemvp
1st September 2004, 07:46 AM
there is RH Fedora Bible (http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1207665449&domain_id=1856&meta_id=1) :D and there are online installation guides such as the one i use!

but never the less thanks for info ;)

sayonara
1st September 2004, 07:49 AM

While these manuals aren't 100% accurate for Fedora (a few filenames are different and the odd tool is in a different position) I found them fantastic for learning linux and getting used to Fedora. Don't get me wrong though, they are very close to FC2. The instalation and partitioning sections were the most useful that I found (as a newbie). This would be my first recommendation to anyone new to Fedora.

Jman
1st September 2004, 04:51 PM
The Fedora docs project (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/) is a work in progress.

foolish
1st September 2004, 06:33 PM
And there's the Fedora wiki maintained by the Fedora Desktop people: http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki

imdeemvp
2nd September 2004, 02:28 AM
And there's the Fedora wiki maintained by the Fedora Desktop people: http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki

this is a very good also!