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.
Changes to Matt's last email are in bold, things to do are in italics.
Find out about getting a lab machine in the lecture theatre.
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 (pending confirmation)
ssh / scp / PuTTY
command line stuff, man/cvs/make/gcc (the existance of)
A general introduction to emacs, what it is, how to use it and tips for performing common tasks.
An introduction to process control in unix systems. We will cover how to start, stop, suspend and kill processes.
A summary of how to put everything that has been taught together, followed by a question and answer session.
4 pages link to UnixTutorials: