New Help Center for Ubuntu

February 11th, 2007 by matt

We’ve been working on a better way to present help to users for the next version of Ubuntu. The result has now been uploaded to Feisty (click for the larger screenshot):

Ubuntu Help Center

We still need to tweak the look of it, but now is a great time to check out the documentation we have for Feisty, file bugs and send comments to the mailing list, and even start contributing!

See our wiki page for how to contribute.

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15 Responses to “New Help Center for Ubuntu”

  1. on 11 Feb 2007 at 6:57 pm1 weeber

    Yeah, the new features in ubuntu feisty are damn good but how the stability goes?

  2. on 11 Feb 2007 at 7:20 pm2 Emmanuel

    While you’re at it, there’s 5 occurences of “Ubuntu”. A bit too much, no ?

    The new topci categories is a good idea.

    Thanks for your work.

  3. on 12 Feb 2007 at 2:37 am3 Ubufied - Ubuntu Blog

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  4. on 13 Feb 2007 at 5:15 am4 Dustin Sparks

    “While you’re at it, there’s 5 occurences of “Ubuntu”. A bit too much, no ?”

    I second this… after reading Emmanuel’s comment I cant help but look at the screenshot and see Ubunut plastered on everything… Maybe it is a bit much.

  5. on 13 Feb 2007 at 5:17 am5 aidan

    i count 6 ;)

  6. on 13 Feb 2007 at 5:24 am6 Anirudh

    I’d written about this and other new features ages ago.
    http://www.anirudhsanjeev.org/ubuntu-710-alpha-3-feisty-herd-3-review-and-screenshots/

  7. on 13 Feb 2007 at 8:31 am7 matt

    Thanks to those who have commented noting the excessive number of instances of “Ubuntu”. I’ve filed a bug about it here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/84853

    Anirudh – your site isn’t working so I can’t tell, but it’s unlikely that you considered this particular feature “ages ago” – it was uploaded a day before this blog post ;)

    weeber – this post is just about one particular feature, the stability of Feisty seems pretty good to me, but I’m not responsible for that!

  8. on 13 Feb 2007 at 10:18 am8 Martin S.

    To those complaining about the excessive use of “Ubuntu”: Intentionally or not, it’s actually a quite clever marketing trick.

    -Martin

  9. on 13 Feb 2007 at 1:36 pm9 Steve Saxe

    Very good – but what is the address for the Ubuntu Help Center? I don’t see it on the page and Google didn’t help either.

  10. on 13 Feb 2007 at 4:19 pm10 rob

    i believe the help center is “located” on your computer. and the links from within go out to the internet

  11. on 13 Feb 2007 at 5:13 pm11 Tiago Sousa

    Ubuntu is getting better everyday, I’m using feisty with daily updates, and I’m truly loving it. Windows is long gone and I surely recommend it to everyone!

    http://Niath.blogspot.com

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  14. on 15 Feb 2007 at 9:27 am14 mjezell

    Why does this have the distinct resemblance to the “Help and Support Center” in Windows XP?

  15. on 02 Nov 2007 at 11:28 am15 Unix Mouth » New Help Center for Ubuntu

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