Fedora Handbook 2018 Released

I finally finished the 2018 edition of Fedora Handbook (aka Fedora Workstation Beginner’s Guide). Just a recap what the handbook is about: it’s a printed handbook that should give enough information to get a user from “knowing nothing about Fedora” to first steps in the system. It’s used as a giveaway at conferences and other events.

The original handbook was written in Czech in 2015 and the English version released last year introduced only cosmetic changes, so even though the handbook has pretty generic info and is not specific to any Fedora release there were quite a lot of changes needed.

I’d especially like to thank Petr Bokoč who suggested a lot of improvements, implemented some of them, and did the proofreading.

The 2017 edition was only translated into Czech and Spanish. I’d like to see more translations this time. If you’d like to translate it into your language, just go ahead, fork the repo, create a directory named after your language code in the “2018” branch, copy the English origin content into it, and start translating. Once you’re done, do a PR. Please stay in the stable 2018 branch and don’t translate the master. Master is a subject of change and shouldn’t be translated.

We provide a script to automatically generate Docbook, HTML, and PDF files. But ideally the outcome should be a quality PDF that is then printed. But that’s not an automatic process. I’m taking care of the English and Czech versions, but other languages would need volunteers to do the typesetting.

We also have a new cover created by Tereza Hlaváčková under supervision of Mairin Duffy.