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

• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Multimedia
    • Sound
      • KsCD
      • Kmix
      • Xmms
      • Beep media player
      • KAudiocreator
    • Video
      • KmPlayer
      • Kaffiene
      • MPlayer
    • Graphics
      • The GIMP
      • Ksnapshot
  • More Applications
    • Accessability
      • Kmagnifier
      • Kmouth
      • on-screen keyboard
      • Xmag
    • Development
    • Documentation
      • Howtos in english
      • Mandrakelinux Documentation in english
    • Editors
      • Emacs
      • Kwrite
    • Finances
      • GnuCash
    • Games

Third day Thursday 28 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm