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SearchReport on the second Cairo University beginner's course
- Volunteers who participate in this event:
- (Conceptor) Diaa Radwan
- Marwa Youssef
- The GNU/Linux Course was -supposed to be- a 3 days course every session was -supposed to be- 4 hrs.
- There were about 25 of the university students in this course .
Here are the outlines of the course
First day Tuesday 26 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
We introduce to them an overview and an introduction about FOSS and GNU/Linux..
- Who we are and What is EGLUG.
- Introduction and overview about GNU/Linux.
- Historical reviews
- Important and major events in the development of GNU/Linux starting from 1969 till 1991.
- The Birth of Free Software
- About Richard M. Stallmen
- The four freedoms
- GNU is not Unix
- A complete users work space programs
- All Free Software
- Unix like
- Use existing components
- Free software foundation
- GNU development tools
- What is Linux
- A Unix Free operating system
- Created from scratch
- Free of minix code released linux as an alternative to minix
- Open development process
- anyone can contribute
- What is Linux core (Kernel)
- Perform many low level and system level functions
- Communicates with hardware
- Developed by developers around the world
- Capable of running on tiny embedded system (PDAs, Robots, DSL routers)as well as the largest mainframes
- Why Choose Open Source
- Open Source is Flexible
- Open Source is Inexpensive
- Open Source developers are motivated
- Better Security and fewer Bugs
- The code will survive
- You can contribute
- Linux System architecture
- User applications
- Linux based operating system
- Shell
- Linux Kernel
- Hardware
- Process handling
- Linux File system
- Everything is a file
- File Tree
- Ext2 Filesystem
- Ext3 the journalized file system
- There are many filesystems and the default differs from one distribution to another
- Historical reviews
- The installation
- 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 their computers
- Use Free Space.
- Erase entire disk
- Use the free space that is available on the windows partitions
- Custom disk partitioning
- Which choice to choose in according to their computers
- 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
- Root User
- Boot loader
- Configurations
- Country, time, and date .
- Detecting sound card, keyboard and mouse
- Network
- Monitor card detection and setting the resolution
- Reboot
Second day Wednesday 27 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
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
- Accessories
- Kcalc
- Kdict
- Knotes
- Unicode Character Map
- Address Books
- Address Manager
- Wordprocessors
- Internet Applications
- Remote Access
- KPPP
- KPPP -Log Viewer
- Virtual network connection
- Web browsers
- Mozilla
- Konqueror
- Epiphany bookmarks editor
- Epiphany Web browser
- Mail
- Kontact
- Evolution
- Kmail
- Instant Massaging
- aMSN
- Kopete
- News
- KNode
- Pan
- File Transfer
- KBear
- gFTP
- Smb4K
- Video Conference
- Gnomemeeting
- Web Editors
- Mozilla Composer
- Quanta Plus
- Remote Access
- Multimedia
- Sound
- KsCD
- Kmix
- Xmms
- Beep media player
- KAudiocreator
- Video
- KmPlayer
- Kaffiene
- MPlayer
- Graphics
- The GIMP
- Ksnapshot
- Sound
- More Applications
- Accessability
- Kmagnifier
- Kmouth
- on-screen keyboard
- Xmag
- Development
- Documentation
- Howtos in english
- Mandrakelinux Documentation in english
- Editors
- Emacs
- Kwrite
- Finances
- GnuCash
- Games
- Accessability
- Office Applications
Third day Thursday 28 - 7 - 2005 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
This session was a command line session but we had to cancel this session as the organizer of this course wasn't cooperative at all and he didn't do what we asked him to do about editing the advertisement although i told him in the previous session that if i came and found this add the same as it is we will cancel the last session but he didn't pay attention and told me it is not a big deal, he talked in a very bad and unrespectable way and we asked the students to come to el-sakia next saturday to complete the course with them as they has nothing to do with that organizer they are not to blame so we will complete the course with them in el-sakia this week , we will divide them into groups as el-sakia lab will not fit for 25 students.
