[Reader-list] Beta 1 of our Interactive GNU/Linux End User Guides

[Sunil Abraham]

Dear Friends,

UNDP-APDIP's International Open Source Network (IOSN), has released for
public review a preview of upcoming interactive mulitmedia guides to
using the Linux desktop, based on the popular User Guide to Using the
Linux Desktop printed training materials.

The interactive guide to Using the Linux Desktop provides online and
downloadable multimedia guides based on the User Guide to Using the
Linux Desktop[1] printed materials.

The requirements for the interactive demo is a browser with Macromedia
Flash Player 7 plugin installed. This is available for Windows, Linux
and Mac platforms from the Macromedia website [2]

IOSN plans to put all the training materials on a Live CD, where a user
can simply insert the CD and go through the training materials on a live
Linux Desktop environment without having to install Linux on their
desktop computers. IOSN's Live CD will be based on the Fedora Project
[3] and the Gnome desktop platform [4] to be consistent with the
existing materials. However, this should not be construed as an
endorsement of this distribution of Linux over the others on the part of
the authors. An example of an existing and successful open source Live
CD is Knoppix [5] which is based on the Debian Linux [6] distribution
and the K Desktop Environment (KDE) [7].

All materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution
License [2] and the source files and scripts for all the modules will be
made available for the final release.

User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop - Interactive (Beta 1)
http://www.iosn.net/training/end-user-manual/interactive

IOSN welcomes public feedback and comments for this beta so that we can
incorporate user feedback into the final product.

[1] http://www.iosn.net/training/end-user-manual/
[2] http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
[3] http://fedora.redhat.com/
[4] http://www.gnome.org/
[5] http://www.knoppix.org/
[6] http://www.debian.org/
[7] http://www.kde.org/
[8] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/


Thanks,

ಸುನೀಲ್
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