Take I

A few people, working under the aegis of TecsChange, gave an introductory course on the GNU/Linux operating system in March/April 2003. The course lasted 6 weeks.

Course Outline

1. GnuLinuxOverview: TobyCabot – March 5, 2003
2. ShellToolsAndFileSystem: Forrest Sutton, TobyCabot & Ed Frankenberry (EdF) – March 12, 2003
3. Installation of Linux: Forrest Sutton – March 19, 2003
4. WebServerOverview: TobyCabot – March 26, 2003
5. LinuxSupportAndDocumentation: Ed Frankenberry (EdF) – April 2, 2003
6. Party! Pot-luck hors d'oeuvres, non-alcoholic beer, interesting music and free-form chat about GNU/Linux – April 9, 2003

Take II

A couple of people are planning to teach one evening about GNU/Linux on Monday, November 1 2004 as one part of a "Computer Essentials" course.

• Software
  • Licensing and Legal Alternatives
  • Open Source and other "shareware"
• GNU/Linux
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Operation

4 half-hours:

• history/background (see FreeSoftwareEssentials) - toby
• open source tools (on windows) - nathan
  • reboot into knoppix
• open source tools on linux - nathan
• discussion about places the students can use linux - nathan & toby
  • servers, desktops, etc
  • discussion of students' ideas

Everybody leaves with a windows cd with firefox and openoffice, a gnoppix cd to explore on their own time, and a 2-page flyer with the course data on it.

Take III

In the spring of 2006 we spent a few monday evenings installing Ubuntu Breezy and playing around with it. We used a variety of machines, mostly PIII's. The hardware detection was pretty good - one Compaq didn't have its soundcard configured correctly, and one Dell had too high a resolution set so there were staticky vertical "stripes" on the page.

Then we set out to figure out what people needed beyond the basic installation.

• Print to Windows printer
• Skype (proprietary)
• Real Audio (proprietary)
• share files between linux machines and linux<->windows
• recovery from forgotten passwords (using live cd)