Haifux Presents - Linux Newcomers "Course"

"Course" Announcement/Target Audience "Course" Format And Schedule Meeting Topics Who'se Lecturing? What, No Money Involved?? Schedule Guide to Linux

Haifux - Haifa Linux users club - is proud to announce a beginner-level "course" for new Linux users. The "course" will cover basic material that would help a new Linux user get started using their system and administering their home machine. This set of meetings is meant to end close to the next planned Linux Installation Party at the Technion, in order to help people get prepared to having this flexible operating system on their beloved PCs.

The target audience for this "course" is people who have used a computer before, and want to get acquainted with Linux, in order to eventually have it installed on their PC, and use it for their day-to-day needs.

The course was made of 7 lectures, carried by various Haifa Linux Club members, who spoke about various subjects.

The topics for the lectures are given below.

Introduction And Basic Functions

Covers: What Linux is, how one logs in/out, and basic usage of the graphical desktop environment.

Linux "behind the scenes"

Covers: Processes and Users, The file system, basic system configuration.

Command Line Won't Eat You...

Covers: The shell and basic commands, getting help, using text editors.

Practical Networking

Covers: Ethernet support, Dial-up with PPP, Modems support.

Real-Life Administration

Covers: Managing processes and tasks, Linux's boot process, Configuring Linux's boot manager.

Linux's Installation Explained

Covers: Disk partitions, installation process overview, Installing software from sources.

Hebrew On Linux

Covers: What is Hebrew support, installing and setting fonts, setting Hebrew keyboard typing support, "logical Hebrew" - are we on track?

The lectures was be carried out by members of Haifux, which themselves have been Linux users for quite a while, and are motivated by the will to spread out the usage of Linux to larger audiences. They have all volunteered (or have been "volunteered" ;) ) for this task...

No, this "course" (and hence the quotation marks) hadn't cost you anything, if you came. Except for the time you spent on getting to the meetings and participating. The Lecture hall was kindly supplied by the Technion's computer science department, and the material is available on the web for participants to copy and print. We thank the faculty stuff for their help in the process of setting up the lectures, as well as the future lecturers.

There intended to be 7 lectures. The time table for those lectures could be found here

We have found the following guide in the Internet. The guide is very comprehensive, written in clear and plain English. Available as PDF file, or the source in the Latex document preparation system.