A Linux help section

[anticpated]

I was musing about some sort of help section for Linux. Generally speaking I mean something like Ubuntu,OpenSuse & Fedora. Not the more complex versions of these distribution.

So the subjects I was going to cover and research are:

Mounting your Android device.

Mounting an Apple device. (Not even sure if this is possible yet)

Updating your mobile OS using Linux

Using Heimdall to update your handset

Being as the emphasis is always on Mac OS X and Windows I thought this might draw in another crowd of people.

[Anonymous]

You have my attention @anticpated Tell us more about your idea

[anticpated]

Nothing concrete in mind yet.

I'm going to try to show the simplest way to do these things.

It comes with one caveat, because for example, even though Ubuntu is aimed at people want to mainly just run desktop applications somethings still not be obvious. So the idea will be to concentrate all the main information into one section. Often looking up information, can lead you to many search results. It's not a beginners operating system although it's not aimed at Debian or Redhat professionals either.

I will presume the people using the guides will already have a working multimedia system. As I will want to keep it as concise as possible and straight to the point. OpenSuse is based on Redhat distributions so the methods will be slightly different however not too dissimilar.

The irony is that both Apple and Android devices use a Unix-based kernel yet there is no direct support I know of, out of the box. However I will simplify and demystify as best as I can. This will likely to be one or two posts and not too lengthy hopefully. My reasoning is because when I was learning to use these operating systems, it as a minefield of information out there.

[Anonymous]

Very interesting. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

[anticpated]

I'll let you know when I'm ready with any ideas or actual finished write-ups.

[rp_yorkshire]

Linux thesedays is very nice to use. Android and Apple devices will both automatically mount like a normal USB stick, although either might need you to unlock the phone and confirm that you want to let the Linux PC access the device. For Apple phones particularly you might need to hunt around within settings regarding the format that photos are saved in, Apple now defaults to a somewhat unusual format (not jpg) which Linux doesn't recognise by default (no doubt some sudo apt get install might fix that, but it's not in any distro out of the box) and Windows might not recognise the new Apple image format by default either. You can change a setting somewhere on a iPhone to tell it to present all photos as normal jpeg when you are transferring to PC. After transfer always use Linux's options to "safely remove", "eject", or if neither of those options is shown then "unmount" depending which options your distro has when you right click on the phone's "drive" within the Linux file browser. I don't own an Android or Apple device, but I've taught some folks to use Linux and they key thing they always asked of me was how to transfer phone photos on to their PC.

Yes I know this is an ancient thread, but Linux is about the only thing in discussion on this forum which I know enough to give advice about, and it seems fair I ought to provide an answer to someone's earlier question as a pre-emptive thank-you for whoever answers my long question about the 3G switch off.

[Enlli]

Just wonder if a Linux discussion would go better on the Virgin Community rather than here

Just a thought