Orna Agmon
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:53:27 -0700
> Most people who are going to attend the first lecture have heard about > Linux, know it is an alternative OS to Windows. What they do wish to see, Nope. About half of them are very familiar with Linux, others may even be at a point where they do not know what an operating system _is_ at all. > is what kind of cool things you can do with it. I believe most of them > heard that it could do things only remotely imaginable in Windows, in half > the time, with very good results, and for free. (as in free beer) > > 1. Gimp stuff. Now subtitute Gimp with Sketch or Kontour, or whatever. will you compare it to Photoshop, for example? > 2. How to write and process HTML forms. Not too much explaining the > minute details of Perl or PHP but rather a proof of concept approach. And here is where people will jump with the Frontpage, asking things like- in Frontpage I press here and there, can you do it this easily? > 3. Toying with KDE and stuff. (shameless plug: the kpat Freecell solving > display is very cool, IMO. ;-)) > 4. Doing things with Bash (real scripts). (I can show that, but it seems > like Nadav is the natural selection). I'm choosing Bask and not zsh > because bash is the de-facto shell. And tcsh is pretty much useless on the > command line. > 5. Downloading a program from the Internet and compiling it, installing it > and running it. Yes, configure games. Yes, open-source. Yes, power! > 6. Installing stuff from RPMs (for good measure). Again, it is usually > straightforward. > 7. Creating professional documents with LaTeX. I can also show it, but I > think I should out-source things to others. And it is better than Latex for Windows because??? > 8. Mastering the Internet. Some people don't make good use of it, even if > they are very experienced Windows Netters. > 9. Multimedia in Real-Time. Alon? Good ideas. > I don't think anyone wishes to learn Linux in 6 meetings or that we can > possibly teach them that. But we can give them a taste of why Linux is so > cool, and why we think so. I think we can do it in 3 2-hour meetings. When > we will dedicate one hour or possibly less for every demonstration theme. We are doing Welcome to Linux here, not Welcome to Applications. There are a lot of good applications for Windows, and if you start a contest like that, I am not sure you win. And I do not think People come to hear about applications. It is way too general for beginners to be able to really listen and learn at this point, like (I admit) I could not concentrate on the ADSL howto before I found myself facing a machine which needed to use ADSL. Then I remembered where to find the HOWTO, and that is all. Bottom line: it is too much for a beginners lecture, and the W2L is rather long as it is. A small part of this should go into the first lecture, which was done without a computer at all last time. Orna. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]