Submitted by Marwa Youssef on Thu, 21/04/2005 - 17:43.

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.

• (Conceptor) Diaa Radwan
• Marwa Youssef

• The First GNU/Linux Course was a 3 days course every session was 4 hours.

• There were 15 of the SSTE members attending this course.

• The course was given by : Conceptor (Diaa Radwan).

Here are the outlines of the course

We introduce to them an overview and an introduction about FOSS 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 about during the session

• 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

o  About Ritchard M. Stallmen (RMS)

o  The four freedoms

·   GNU is not Unix

o  A complete users work space programs

o  All Free Software

o  Unix like

o  Use existing components

o  Free software foundation

o  GNU development tools

·   What is Linux

o  A Unix Free operating system

o  Created from scratch

o  Free of minix code released linux as an alternative to minix

o  Open development process

o  anyone can contribute

·   What is Linux core (Kernel)

o  Perform many low level and system level functions

o  Communicates with hardware

o  Developed by developers around the world

o  Capable of running on tiny embedded system (PDAs, Robots, DSL and routers)as well as the largest mainframes

·   Why Choose Open Source

o  Open Source is Flexible

o  Open Source is Inexpensive

o  Open Source developers are motivated

o  Better Security and fewer Bugs

o  The code will survive

o  You can contribute

·   Linux System architecture

o  User applications

o  Linux based operating system

o  Shell

o  Linux Kernel

o  Hardware

·   Process handling

·   Linux Filesystem

o  Everything is a file

o  Filesystem Tree

o  Ext2 Filesystem

o  Ext3 the journalized file system

o  There are many filesystems and the default differs from one distribution to another

• The installation

There was only just one computer available so we connected the 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 many questions as there wasn't a hands on lab

• 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

• Reboot

In this session we introduces to them the GNU/Linux Operating system as an environment and how they can easily use it and deal with it using the GUI (Graphical User Interface)

• 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

·   Vi/VIM

·   Kwrite

·   Finances

o  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

This session was a comand line session and it leads to a small bash scripting session as the engineers asked so many questions

• 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

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