On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:18, Graham Barnett wrote: > >>>I still think a meeting in 2 halves is best. First half GUI and app > >>>based discussions/presentations. Second half, CLI/programming oriented > >>>discussion. We start the halves at preset times, then, if people didn't > >>>want to stay for the second half they could leave. Conversly, they could > >>>come ONLY for the second half if they had no interest in "desktopy" > >>>things > > I support this idea, I have much to learn about many things, from both the > GUI & CLI sides. > > Nicks suggestion of multimedia topics would be good, also demonstrations of > some of the more common / awesome Linux apps that was spoken about last > year.
I would be particularly interested to see a demo of Pov-Ray. > I would also like to learn the basics of writing scripts, > ie when, 24 * 7 ( Literally, with the help of the cron or at utilities. ) > why, Because you can then use any and every program and utility available to unix at any time of the day or night. > and how to use them, In particular:- http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ And as a bzip2ed archive tarball:- http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.7.tar.bz2 The 'canonical magnum opus' is at:- http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/index.html Also:- http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/ http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/827/1/ http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/936/1/ PS & btw, Not good [n]etiquette to post HTML. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
