Orr Dunkelman
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:54:56 -0700
> as i understand, the lectuer already took place. yet, i didn't hear
> anything about it (perhaps i missed that?). can you send a summary to the
> list? i am refering to the lecture you gave twice in the intro to
> operating systems course in the technion about 2 weeks back.
>
> thanks,
Well, I'll start by pointing out that the lecture was ready mostly becuase
your help and comments.
So thanks to all who helped me with the lecture.
The first lecture took place on 14:30 (Monday), and after several
technical problems (like not being able to show the slides), we started
the lecture.
The lecture contained about 20 minutes of telling what Linux and Open
source is. not too many asked questions in this part, and most of them
just seemed shocked that I took the liberty to luagh a little bit about
the lecturer ("Anyone ever wrote a device driver?", the lecturer was the
only one who raised his hand, and well ... I couldn't resist the
temptation of "And see what he became...").
Afterwards the technical stuff has started and the inavoidable question
was asked - "Will it be in the exam". the answer btw, is YES.
It took them some time to understand that there are 3 different lilo's (my
mistake, I should have presented them as I did later on wed. that there
are lilo(1), lilo(2), lilo(3)). but all in all they understood the basic
concepts of the bootstrapping process.
At the end I had some more time to talk about the haifux, and invited them
to join us in our pursuit of Linux.
I've spoken later with someone I know which was in the audience and she
said that all she remembers from the lecture is the Linux part (which is
fine by me personally, but not by the course's people), but she has to
download the slides and learn this too.
Wendsday lecture was on 8:30 (I'll never give any serious lecture at that
hour! I swear).
People were so tired, they let me finish the material in half the time, so
I had some spare time to speak about INIT a little bit, and even about
fork().
The main problem with both lectures was that I assumed that they had some
knowledge which they hadn't possesed at all: What disk geometry is, how
the interrupt vector can be hijacked (apperantly, I was to replace the
tutorial which teaches that), and more stuff.
All in all:
It was nice. needs better slides. Should have practiced in front of you
guys before the rela lecture.
Orr.
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