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 Registration

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 be coordinated with 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.
This is the second time we pass this series. More about the first time can be found in here.

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 6 lectures, carried by various Haifa Linux Club members, who spoke about various subjects. Each week a new subject will be discussed. The lectures are as self contained as possible, but we recommend an attendance to as many lectures as possible.

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. After this lecture, you can use graphical user interfaces designed for Linux, and operate many functions.

Linux's Installation Explained

Covers: Disk partitions, installation process overview, Installing software from sources. After this lecture, the person can understand the process of Installation. After this lecture, there will be an installation party, in which Linux experts will install Linux.

X-windows Tips & Shell

Covers: Several tips for using a X-windows systems (Graphical interface for Linux). Also covers the basic commands that lie in the command line shell. After this lecture, you can use many basic function in the Linux environment

Practical Networking

Covers: Ethernet support, Dial-up with PPP, Modems support, ISDN. After this lecture, you can configure most modems or networking cards in your computer.

Administration of a Linux box

Covers: Processes, File system, Linux's boot process, Configuring Linux's boot manager. After this lecture, you can make changes to your Linux configuration, adding programs and utilities, etc.

Hebrew On Linux

Covers: What is Hebrew support, installing and setting fonts, setting Hebrew keyboard typing support, "logical Hebrew" - are we on track? After this lecture, you can have your own Hebrew utilities.

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 6 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.

True, no money is involved, but we need to know how many chairs we need. So please register either by filling this form, or by sending an Email to orrd@vipe.technion.ac.il. Please specify in your Email your previous experience with computers and Linux.