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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay cool thanks, what I'll do is have a look at the patch tomorrow and
implement the changes. I'm a bit busy right now with away-from-computer
work, but by Wednesday or Thursday I'll have plenty of time to go over
what you've done and push it through to mainstream.

I've also got to switch to docbook, that's a huge priority - which means
basically taking all the 10 pages that have been written thus far and
converting them to HTML/XML files by hand... quite time consuming.

I'm going to be leaving out quite a lot of formatting - we can deal with
that once alpha is out. All of this will be in the IRC meeting next
week, so please make sure you're there :)

Thanks!

** Changed in: ubuntu-manual
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Anmol Sarma (unmole-in)

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Bug description:
I found some errors in the manual. I am grouping them all into a single bug for the sake of simplicity. I know I should have used the bzr channel but here goes...

1. Unix came out in the '70s not the '60s. Also, Unix now is used to denote a whole family of operating systems. IMHO it would be better to make this point clear.

http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween9.html#id2791248 (Halloween Document IX)

2. GNOME stands for GNU Object Model Environment and should not be written as Gnome.

3.The variants' list should read :
  ~Ubuntu Desktop
  ~Kubuntu
  ~Ubuntu Server Edition
  ~Ubuntu Netbook Remix
  ~Kubuntu Netbook Edition
  ~Xubuntu

Apparently the terms edition and remix are not interchangeable. http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
Besides, these are the official names.

4.A 32-bit OS can support 4GB of memory. I believe 32-bit editions of Windows however can access only 3GB.

5.LTS releases are not necessarily more stable than normal reseases. They only have a longer period of support for those who want longer periods of time in between updates.

6.The alphabetic order started from 6.06 LTS.

7.A LiveCD runs majorly off RAM. Apart from the CD's READ not WRITE speed, the other factor slowing the LiveCD is the reduced memory available. (The FS etc. are also stored in RAM)

8. "...LiveCD can be used on any computer (Mac, Windows,Linux)...". We would not want the green horn to confuse operating systems with architectures now would we ?

9. There might be no single way to configure a BIOS to boot from the CD but the manual should give some pointers such as following the on-screen instructions.

10."...Wubi allows you to install Ubuntu inside Windows as a program..." This is a bit misleading. Coupled with the mention of a virtual hard drive, the reader might think it akin to virtual machine.

11.Wubi uses a loopfile not a virtual hard drive. (You did not mean it in the sense of virtualization, but it's better not to use the term)