Haifux Presents - Linux Newcomers "Course"

Special Announcment - Seventh Lecture

"Course" Announcement/Target Audience "Course" Format And Schedule Meeting Topics Who'se Lecturing? Lecture Slides 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 be coordinated with the next planned Linux Day at the Technion, in order to help people get prepared to having this flexible operating system on their beloved PCs.
This is the third time we pass this series. More about the first time can be found in here. More about the second 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. Note that adminstrators with 10 years of exeperience, hackers, etc. might be a bit bored.

The course is 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. Each lecture will be divided into two - the first hour (18:30-19:30) is very basic and fundimental level, the second hour (19:45 - 20:30) is designated to those who have more expert questions and problems (How to compile kernel). Note that the second lecture (basic use) will be given 3 times during the linux-day (7/11/01). A full schedule can be found here.

The topics for the lectures are given below.

Introduction

Covers: What Linux is, people explain their use of Linux. This lecture will cover different uses for Linux (web server, work station etc.)
Some requestes regarding the Installation Party (Linux Day) will be asked.

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.
Some requestes regarding the Linux Day will be asked.

Basic Use

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

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

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.

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.

Development Tools for Linux

Covers: What development tools exist in Linux (opensource mostly), how to use them, etc. After this lecture you would be able to turn your linux machine to a development center.

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...

All lectures (besides maybe the first) have their slides on-line. The slides can be found here.

No, this "course" (and hence the quotation marks) will not 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 are going to be 6 lectures. Here is the Time Table.

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.

Due to requests from the audience, we added a seventh lecture. The seventh lecture will take place on 10.12.01, and will deal with scanrios in system administration a Linux user should know about. Example for such cases are: RPM usage, compiling kernel, etc.