Report on the SSTE first GNU/Linux Course

Report on the First GNU/Linux Course For the SSTE members

We (EGLUG) were contacted From the SSTE members to arrange GNU/Linux courses for them in Central El-Fawala.

Volunteers who participate in this event:

(Conceptor) Diaa Radwan
Marwa Youssef

First day Tuesday 12 - 4 - 2005 from 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm

and GNU/Linux.. This introduction was prepared on slides and of course we used the white board to explain some advanced issues that they asked

Who we are and What is EGLUG.

They already knew who we are as we went there many times and arranged some meetings and seminars there so we just give a brief note about EGLUG again just in case that some of them didn't know about us.

Introduction and overview about GNU/Linux.
- Historical reviews
  - Important and major events in the development of Unix/GNU/Linux

starting from 1969 till 1991.

The Birth of Free Software
- About Ritchard M. Stallmen (RMS)
- The four freedoms
GNU is not Unix
- A complete users work space programs
- All Free Software
- Unix like
- Use existing components
- Free software foundation
- GNU development tools
What is Linux
- A Unix Free operating system
- Created from scratch
- Free of minix code released linux as an alternative to minix
- Open development process
- anyone can contribute
What is Linux core (Kernel)
- Perform many low level and system level functions

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Developed by developers around the world
Capable of running on tiny embedded system (PDAs, Robots, DSL and routers)as well as the largest mainframes

Why Choose Open Source
- Open Source is Flexible
- Open Source is Inexpensive
- Open Source developers are motivated
- Better Security and fewer Bugs
- The code will survive
- You can contribute
Linux System architecture
- User applications
- Linux based operating system
- Shell
- Linux Kernel
- Hardware
Process handling
Linux Filesystem
- Everything is a file
- Filesystem Tree
- Ext2 Filesystem
- Ext3 the journalized file system
- There are many filesystems and the default differs from one distribution to another

The installation

computer to a projector and we began to explain the istallation process on this computer so it took much more effort and time as they asked

What we covered in the installation session:
- What we need in order to install GNU/Linux
- How to boot the machine in order to install linux
- Security levels
- Partitioning
  - Which choice to choose in according to thier computers
    - Use Free Space.
    - Erase entire disk
    - Use the free space that is available on the windows partitions
    - Custom disk partitioning
- Why to Use Ext3
- How to make the needed partitions and why do i need them
  - /
  - Swap
  - /home
- Package selection
- Adding User accounts
  - Root User
    - What is the Root user
    - Creating the Root user
    - Setting its password
  - Adding ordinary User accounts
    - What are the normal or ordinary users
    - Setting passwords
- Boot loader
- Configurations
  - Country, time, and date .
  - Detecting sound card, keyboard and mouse
  - Network
  - Monitor card detection and setting the resolution

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Second day Wednesday 13 - 4 - 2005 from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm

system as an environment and how they can easily use it and deal with it

X structure
- What is the X server and why to use it and what does it do
Several Desktop environments
- KDE
- GNOME
- Other Desktop choices

Using the applications
- Office Applications
  - Wordprocessors
    - OpenOffice Writer
    - OpenOffice Math
    - AbiWord
    - LyX
  - SpreadSheets
    - OpenOffice Calc
    - Gnumeric
  - Presentations
    - OpenOffice Impress
  - Drawing
    - OpenOffice Draw
  - Graphs
    - Kivio
  - Publishing
    - Xpdf
    - Scribus
    - KGhostView
  - Task management
    - Planner
  - Time management
    - KOrganizer
    - Kalarm
  - Communications
    - Kphone
    - Kfax
    - Kdeprintfax
    - Kpilot
    - Kandy
  - Accessories
    - Kcalc
    - GNOME Dictionary
    - Kdict
    - Knotes
    - Unicode Character Map
  - Address Books
    - Address Manager
- Internet Applications
  - Web browsers
    - FireFox
    - Mozilla
    - Konqueror
    - dillo
    - Epiphany Web browser
  - Mail
    - Thunderbird
    - Kontact
    - Evolution
    - Kmail
  - Instant Massaging
    - aMSN
    - Kopete
  - File Transfere
    - kget
    - wget
    - KBear
    - gFTP
    - Smb4K
  - Web Editors
    - Bluefish
    - Quanta Plus
- Multimedia
  - Sound
    - Kmix
    - Xmms
    - Beep media player
    - KAudiocreator
  - Video
    - Xine
    - KmPlayer
    - Kaffiene
    - MPlayer
  - Graphics
    - The GIMP
    - Ksnapshot
    - gqview
- More Applications
  - Accessability
    - Kmagnifier
    - Kmouth
    - on-screen keyboard
    - Xmag
  - Develepment
  - Documentation
    - Howtos in english
    - Mandrakelinux Documentation in english
  - Editors

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Vi/VIM
Kwrite

Finances
- GnuCash
Games

The System
- How to install Packages and how to uninstall them
- Configuration
  - Desktop Configuration
  - Boot and init
  - KDE
  - Hardware
  - Computer Configuration
- User administration
- File tools
  - Searching for files and finding them
- How to use the terminals
  - Just a little introduction on how to deal with the terminal Pseudo

terminals

How to switch between virtual terminals and how to use them

Third day Thursday 14 - 4 - 2005 from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Why Command line is powerful
When a command is executed , what is going on?
What are the components of Linux command line user environment?
- Kernel
- Shell
- Terminal emulator
Basic Unix system concepts
Running Commands
- How to write the commands and what is the command syntax
- Some of the most popular commands that are usually used
How to get help when you are in front of the terminal
- Info Pages
- Man Pages
Virtual and Pseudo consoles
File and Shell basics
File globbing
Handling files attributes
Redirection and pipes
Command line completion
File Operating and filtering-determine file contents
Vi/Vim Editor
Starting and handling background processes
Advanced commands that they asked about
Introduction to Bash Shell Scripting
- Scripting Basics
- Create Shell scripts
- Making Script Executable
- Generating Output
- Handling Output
- Exit status
- Conditional Execution