Yup, every 3rd Monday for the foreseeable future. I'm typing up some notes and URLs from the meeting and will hopefully post that tonight.
We have determined that we will use the RUTE book (http://rute.sf.net) as our tutorial for BRLUG Newbie Nights. Here is the rough agenda for the future BRLUG Newbie Night meetings: 1. Intro to Distros 2/18/02 1.1 RedHat, Mandrake - RPM based 1.2. Debian - deb based 1.3. SuSE 1.4. Yellow Dog Linux 1.5. Other distros? 1.6. What intro is best for newbies? 1.6.1. Currently, Mandrake is the favorite. 2. Installation and Configuration 3/18/02?, 4/15/02? 2.1. Booting Up 2.2. hard disk partitioning - fdisk, DiskDruid 2.2.1. Sizing partitions 2.3. Installing software 2.4. Configuring X Window (GUI) 2.5. Lilo, GRUB 2.5.1. Kernel Who? 3. Installing software - Intro and Use 5/20/02? 3.1. Software Package Management 3.1.1. RPM 3.1.2. deb 3.1.3. Ports tree 3.2. Compiling Software from Source 3.2.1. gcc - intro and use 3.2.2. make 3.2.3. Finding, downloading source code 3.2.3.1. on-line software archives 3.2.3.2. tar, gzip, bunzip2 4. Basic Networking - Intro, Config, Use 6/17/02?, 7/15/02? 4.1. A Short History of the Internet - (Egads! A taxpayer financed govt project that works!) 4.1.2. RFCs 4.1.2. More Acronyms Than You Can Shake a Stick At 4.2. TCP/IP 4.2.1. Return of the Acronyms 4.3. How to setup a network 4.3.1. Cabling - Orange, Green, Blue,... Purple? 4.3.2. NICs, hubs and other alien technology 4.4. Setting up servers 4.4.1. Mail 4.4.2. Web 4.4.3. etc. 5. GUIs - Intro, Install, Config 8/19/02? 5.1. X Window 5.1.1. XFree 5.2. Window Managers 5.3. Desktop Environments 5.3.1. Gnome 5.3.2. KDE Possible future topics: a. Compiling Your Own Kernel b. Linux From Scratch c. Intro to C d. How to Participate in a Free|Open Source Software Project e. Free|Open Source Software Licenses - What's the Deal? This agenda WILL change to suit our needs as we go along. _Please_ give any feedback, help and ideas you can, it will be most welcome. If you plan to attend the next meeting or any meeting, please send me an email so that we can plan to have enough chairs for everyone. Thanks, John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Dustin Puryear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Cheap Official RedHat Linux 7.1 > Basic packages > still in shrink wrap > > > I also want to thank John for giving some time to the newbie > cause. So will > this be a regular, monthly event? > > Regards, Dustin > > At 08:50 PM 1/22/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >John, I want to say thank you for the excellent "Newbie" > class Monday. In > >just a little while you had me understanding the basics. Now > all I have to > >do is study for the next few years and I may understand how > Linux is put > >together. > >Thanks again and see you next month. > >Larry > > > > > >================================================ > >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > >your subscription information. > >================================================ > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Information Systems Consultant > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
