Technical help

[Diya Saxena]

Hi All

I am back again after a long vacation in my native place :-).

Wish you all a very Happy and prosperous New Year.. May all your 
dreams that you ever dreamt of come true this year :-)

Now suddenly I saw a huge mailing going on in this list, nice to see 
that and equally great to see that we are more concerned about a 
proper functioning now, like having a website and more people 
communicating here. Thanks Sulamita for starting the fire :-) ( BTW I 
saw you in FOSS, Bangalore).

Now, Jyoti talked about sharing technical knowledge and helping people 
in getting aboard, I will say thats really a great Idea. 

Now a couple of years back when I started migrating from Windows to 
Linux, I will say I had a hell of a time. There are so many distros 
and so many new things and even new fs and all. It was really 
confusing at that time, and frank no one really helped me at that 
time. There is not a single document in tldp that helps.

Now some one else was also talking about contribution to the 
community... now my suggestion is that if someone who has some free 
time can (s)he come up with a beginners document? Like what are the 
filesystyems in linux. How to format the harddrive for linux 
installation. What are the choices of the distros and from where to 
get. How to make systems dual boot etc. and yes that can be 
contributed back to tldp and I think that can really help more people 
to start using Linux.
I know a lot many people who want to try Linux but afraid that they 
might kick their system for a toss, and there are many people who 
wants to try Linux but does not want to completely migrate from 
Windows.
I think these step by step docs can really help them. we can even put 
them in the website and inturn attract more audience to this user 
group.

I am currently working in Embedded linux and hence if ppl want I can 
write up some document about kernel compilation. Open embedded 
buildsystem, kernel and user space debugging etc...

This is my suggestion, what do you all suggest?

Wish you a wondwerful new year again

Diya.