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WLUG is running a set of Introduction to Linux tutorials in the 2nd and 3rd week of A Semester 2004. These tutorials are aimed at first and second year Computer Science students and are sponsored by the CS Department. Seminars will start at 7pm and will be about 1 hour of presentation and 20-30 mins of questions/discussion, they will be finished well before 9pm each night.

If you have questions or need more information about the UnixTutorials email linuxtuts@wlug.org.nz. Slides and demonstration material from each seminar will be available from this page after the seminar. (See the bottom of the page).

Next Seminar

Seminar 2: (Wed 10th Mar) - Applications

Presenter: Craig Box

An introduction to useful OSS applications that can be used under linux. This will focus on what is installed in the TSG labs and will probably cover

  • Concepts & culture
  • Linux and Windows differences
  • Applications

    • Internet - Mozilla & derivitaves
    • Office - !OpenOffice.org
  • Remote Access - ssh/scp/PuTTY
  • Command line stuff, man/cvs/make/gcc (the existance of)
  • CS department e-mail (pop/imap)
  • Selections/Cut Copy Paste/Drag Drop/etc

Seminar 3: (Thu 11th Mar) - Emacs

Presenter: Daniel Lawson

  • A general introduction to emacs, what it is, how to use it and tips for performing common tasks.

    • Key Combos
    • Windows Compatibility Mode
    • Find out what the meta key is in the labs

Seminar 4: (Tue 16th Mar) - Bash

Presenter: Perry Lorier

  • A general introduction to bash, what it is, how to use it and tips for performing common tasks.

Seminar 5: (Wed 17th Mar) - Processes/Permissions

Presenter: John !McPherson?

  • An introduction to process control in unix systems. We will cover how to start, stop, suspend and kill processes.

    • Brief introduction to signals
    • foreground/background/nohup
    • ctrl-z vs ctrl-c / Sending signals via kill
    • very brief discussion of threads vs processes (eg displayed in top)
    • Looking at process usage - top, ps, pstree, fuser
  • File/Process ownership/permissions

    • overview
    • groups - newgrp
    • chmod

Seminar 6: (Thu 18th Mar) - Summary / Q&A

Presenter: Jamie Curtis

  • A summary of how to put everything that has been taught together, followed by a question and answer session.

    • suggested: a Hello World exercise
    • run through sample assignment
    • tell people about the LUG in detail

At the end of the 6th seminar each participant will receive a copy of the popular "Cheat Sheet" and a copy of WLUGKnoppix?, a bootable linux CD based on Knoppix 3.3


Already gone:

Seminar 1: (Tue 9th Mar) - Introduction to Linux / OSS

Presenter: Tony !McGregor?

  • What is OSS
  • What is Linux
  • What is GNU
  • Why use Linux
  • History of Linux
  • About the Linux Distributions