John, I was trying to match the agenda you gave out with the Rute User's Tutorial to be able to read up on what we will discuss, but I could not match up too many. Could you give the section number these topics come from if they are in Rute? Just do next month's right now. Thanks, Larry
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 8:36 AM Subject: Agenda for BRLUG Newbie Nights was RE: [brluglist] Cheap Official RedHat Linux 7.1 Basic packages still in shrink wrap > 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. > ================================================ > ================================================ 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. ================================================
