Report on the second Cairo University beginner's course
- (Conceptor) Diaa Radwan
- Marwa Youssef
Here are the outlines of the course
First day Tuesday 26 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
- Who we are and What is EGLUG.
- Introduction and overview about GNU/Linux.
- Historical reviews
- Important and major events in the development of GNU/Linux starting from 1969 till 1991.
- The Birth of Free Software
- About Richard M. Stallmen
- 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
- Communicates with hardware
- Developed by developers around the world
- Capable of running on tiny embedded system (PDAs, Robots, DSL 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 File system
- Everything is a file
- File Tree
- Ext2 Filesystem
- Ext3 the journalized file system
- There are many filesystems and the default differs from one distribution to another
- Historical reviews
- The installation
- 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 their computers
- Use Free Space.
- Erase entire disk
- Use the free space that is available on the windows partitions
- Custom disk partitioning
- Which choice to choose in according to their computers
- 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
- Root User
- Boot loader
- Configurations
- Country, time, and date .
- Detecting sound card, keyboard and mouse
- Network
- Monitor card detection and setting the resolution
- Reboot
Second day Wednesday 27 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- 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
- Accessories
- Kcalc
- Kdict
- Knotes
- Unicode Character Map
- Address Books
- Address Manager
- Wordprocessors
- Internet Applications
- Remote Access
- KPPP
- KPPP -Log Viewer
- Virtual network connection
- Web browsers
- Mozilla
- Konqueror
- Epiphany bookmarks editor
- Epiphany Web browser
- Mail
- Kontact
- Evolution
- Kmail
- Instant Massaging
- aMSN
- Kopete
- News
- KNode
- Pan
- File Transfer
- KBear
- gFTP
- Smb4K
- Video Conference
- Gnomemeeting
- Web Editors
- Mozilla Composer
- Quanta Plus
- Remote Access
- Multimedia
- Sound
- KsCD
- Kmix
- Xmms
- Beep media player
- KAudiocreator
- Video
- KmPlayer
- Kaffiene
- MPlayer
- Graphics
- The GIMP
- Ksnapshot
- Sound
- More Applications
- Accessability
- Kmagnifier
- Kmouth
- on-screen keyboard
- Xmag
- Development
- Documentation
- Howtos in english
- Mandrakelinux Documentation in english
- Editors
- Emacs
- Kwrite
- Finances
- GnuCash
- Games
- Accessability
- Office Applications
Third day Thursday 28 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm