This is the first time the Ubuntu Documentation Team is releasing the Quick Guide. Hopefully this resource will grow from strength-to-strength in future releases. The Quick Guide is a great way to take a quick tour of the Ubuntu Desktop. It provides brief introductions and screen captures of all the applications installed by default.
Also in this release is the FAQ Guide which was ported from the Ubuntu Wiki to Docbook and is now a permanent feature of the Ubuntu documentation project.
We wish to thank all the contributors who spent hours of their time developing not only the documents but also the documentation framework. This was a large part of the current documentation release. Hopefully the next release will need less work on the framework and we will see more and improved content in the documents.
Special thanks must go to John Hornbeck for allowing the repository to originally be hosted on his machine and keeping it up for so long. Good news is that, with the help of the Canonical team, the repository has now moved and is running in the Canonical server farm. Thanks Canonical for finally doing the move.