Topics
- Distributions
- Repositories/Packages
- Help Resources
- Command Line
- Dot files
- Editors
- File manipulations
- File system commands
- Practical one-liners
- AFS/Kerberos
Ideas
- Tar file of examples (Files, folders, readmes)
- Scavenger hunt type game thing
Proposed Schedule
- Brief history/background of Linux
- Linus Torvalds and Minix
- The kernel versus the distribution
- GNU
- Linux on the CMU campus
- Clusters
- unix.andrew
- Computing Services datacenter
- Student machines
- unix.andrew for fun and profit
- contrib.andrew
- experimenting with programming languages (especially web programming)
- collaborating on projects
- Basic shell commands
- Navigation (ls, cd, pwd ...)
- File editing (nano, vim, emacs ...)
- Permissions (AFS, chmod/chown)
- Other nifty stuff (IRC, email, lpr, vlc)
- "Modern" Linux
- Window Managers (GNOME, KDE, Fluxbox, XFCE, Compiz)
- Major distros (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Archlinux, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, Slackware)
- Other uses (Android)