We're doing another CS Linux session tonight, on the X Windows system
and Desktop Environments. We may also get a bit into package management
if time allows. If anyone is interested, please stop by. We're meeting
6 P.M. @ Lindley Hall 030 (STC Lab).
Aaron W. Hsu
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Mark Krenz wrote:I assume that this meeting is tonight in spite of tomorrow in the subject.
> Thanks for reminding me of that. I try to reserve the room for a half
> hour before so that there is time to setup. If you want to get there at
> 6 and chat, that's fine. But I won't start presenting until around 6:30.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:35:10PM GMT, Jared Schlemmer [schlemmj@bloomington.in.gov] said the following:
>
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:35:10PM GMT, Jared Schlemmer [schlemmj@bloomington.in.gov] said the following:
> Hey Mark,
>
> I just wanted to confirm the 6:30 p.m. one more time with you. The MCPL web
> site has this meeting listed as starting at 6 p.m. Thanks!
>
> ~Jared
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Just a reminder that there will be a BLUG meeting tomorrow at the
> > Monroe County Public Library on Kirkwood Avenue. I'll be giving a
> > presentation on command line tips and tricks based on posts made to the
> > @climagic feed on Twitter and Identica. I've put together what I think
> > will be an enlightening and entertaining presentation. This is the
> > presentation I will also be giving this Friday at Ohio Linux Fest's
> > early penguins track.
> >
> > The meeting starts at 6:30pm and is in meeting room 1A. See you
> > there.
> >
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Just a reminder that there will be a BLUG meeting tomorrow at the
Monroe County Public Library on Kirkwood Avenue. I'll be giving a
presentation on command line tips and tricks based on posts made to the
@climagic feed on Twitter and Identica. I've put together what I think
will be an enlightening and entertaining presentation. This is the
presentation I will also be giving this Friday at Ohio Linux Fest's
early penguins track.
The meeting starts at 6:30pm and is in meeting room 1A. See you
there.
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The meeting starts at 6:30pm and is in meeting room 1A. See you
there.
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The first meeting is tonight at 6 P.M. in Lindley Hall 101 (at least,
it should be). The other meetings should continue every other week on
Monday at the same time, if all things go well.
We'd love to have you bring some people with you. If you'd like to help
out, the best thing would be to have things to demonstrate to people as
well as things to talk about, either formally or informally during the
discussion and interaction periods.
Aaron W. Hsu
--Kirk
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM, <arcfide@sacrideo.us> wrote:
> @BLUG: Please feel free to join in on this. We're open to any one who
> is interested in coming. This is an informal Linux meeting group that
> I am doing for some C.S. students at IU. I'd welcome others to it, as
> well as any guest speakers. :-) This is a copy of the announcement that
> I sent out to them detailing the scheduling.
>
> The format for this is really simple, we have about seven sessions that
> will occur every other week starting on Monday, Sept. 6th. They'll cover
> various topics on Linux and the basic idea is to give you a good running
> start on using Linux as your primary desktop platform.
>
> So, here's how the schedule looks so far:
>
> Sept. 6th, 2010
> 1) Basic Installation and Configuration
>
> Sept. 20th, 2010
> 2) Desktop environments and the X Windows system
>
> Oct. 4th, 2010
> 3) Package management
>
> Oct. 18th, 2010
> 4) The command-line essentials and special CLI tricks/tools
>
> Nov. 1st, 2010
> 5) Text Editing and the Programmer's toolchain
>
> Nov. 15, 2010
> 6) Remote access, secure shell, public/private keys
>
> Nov. 22, 2010
> 7) Encryption and Security on Linux
>
> It's designed to get you step by step up and running with your new Linux
> system, and using it as quickly as possible.
>
> Towards the end I have focused on some cool things that I think are
> worthwhile to teach, that you generally won't get in other places.
>
> Here is a bit of a Q&A that I hope will answer your questions:
>
> Q1. What do I need to participate?
>
> If you want to get the most out of these sessions, you should
> bring a computer on which you can either install Linux directly
> (that means to complete wipe the old OS from it), or that
> has enough disk space to run Linux in a virtual machine
> environment. If you don't have either of these, then you can
> still get something from the sessions, but it won't be nearly
> as fun. :-)
>
> My recommendation is that you have a laptop that you can dedicate
> just to Linux, and use that. If you can't do that, then VMWare
> Workstation is your next best bet.
>
> Before you go to the first session, you should have either your
> Laptop ready to wipe and erase, or have VMWare Workstation
> installed. You can go to the VMWare E-Academy and get VMWare
> Workstation 7 for free (Windows, Linux) if you are a student of
> the SoIC.
>
> http://e5.onthehub.com/Webstore/Welcome.aspx?ws=98c9cfcd-8d36-de11-9d57-0030485a8df0
>
> You need to ask for an account though, so do that quickly! Go
> to the following link:
>
> https://help.soic.indiana.edu/request/
>
> And make a request for a VMWare E-Academy account. Once you get
> that you can get VMWare Workstation for Free. Or VMWare Fusion
> if you are on the Mac.
>
> You will also need to have at the ready a DVD of Slackware
> 13.1, either the 64-bit version if you have a modern processor,
> or the 32-bit version if you have a computer that is really
> old. The easiest way to get them is from the torrents page of
> Slackware.com:
>
> http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php
> 64-bit: http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware64-13.1-install-dvd.torrent
> 32-bit: http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-13.1-install-dvd.torrent
>
> Make sure that you download this to your computer early! You want
> to have it ready by the 6th. If you are using VMWare Workstation,
> then you should be able to just have it located somewhere on
> your machine. If you want to do a native installation with a
> complete wipe and erase, then you should burn the DVD to a disc
> first so that you can use it during the installation.
>
> For any machine that you work with, make sure that you have
> at least 20 or 30 GB of space on the machine. This shouldn't
> be a problem if you are going to do a wipe of the computer,
> but if you want to use VMWare Workstation, make sure that you
> have enough disk space to hold Slackware, the DVD, and VMWare. I
> recommend 40GB for a good usable system, but you can get by with
> less. like 20GB or so.
>
> Q2. Where are we meeting?
>
> We should be meeting in Lindley Hall 101, which I will be
> reserving for the above dates assuming that you all can give me
> good times to meet.
>
> Q3. When are we meeting?
>
> Ah, this has yet to be decided. This is important, so please,
> everyone send in your preferences for times on Monday Evening. My
> thoughts are that this would be a one or one and a half hour
> long session that starts at either six or seven o'clock. We can
> also start a little earlier if you would like. Please, everyone,
> send me your time preferences so we can get this worked out.
>
> Q4. What will the meetings be like?
>
> Very information :-) and fairly easy. I'll spend about half the
> time going through the material, and then I'll be working with
> each of you to answer any questions you have. The rest of the
> period after I get done with the walk through is for you guys
> and gals to shoot the breeze and get me to answer any questions
> you have about Linux and other things in general. You should be
> able to follow along with most of the stuff that I show you on
> your own machines, so that should make it easier.
>
> Q5. What if I want to discuss something that is not on the syllabus?
>
> Sure! We can do that. Just let me know what you guys want to
> cover and I'll try to find time to fit it in, either with an
> extra session or as part of the existing sessions.
>
> Q6. What if I run into trouble and I don't know what I'm doing or how to fix things?
>
> Ah, the good news is that there are a lot of help resources
> out there for getting help with these questions, especially
> with Linux.
>
> BLUG Mailing List: http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
> Slackware IRC Channel: ##slackware on irc.oftc.org (You need to use an IRC client for this one)
> Usenet: alt.os.linux.slackware
> Slackware homepage: http://www.slackware.com
>
> Q7. What if I can't make it to one of the sessions?
>
> Well, we're going to be sorry to miss you. If you have trouble
> making it to many of them, then you should let me know ahead
> of time in case we need to do some rescheduling. On the other
> hand, these will be mostly independent pieces and you can very
> easily pick this stuff up on your own in your own free time if
> you want to do so. So, don't worry about not being able to make
> it to some of the sessions.
>
> Q8. Why Slackware?
>
> If some of you have heard of Linux before and have looked
> around at it, you'll probably wonder why I'm not going to teach
> something like Redhat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, or
> Mandriva or the like. Well, that's actually pretty simple. This
> is a class that's targeted at getting you to really understand
> Linux, and especially as a computer scientist. In this respect,
> Slackware presents the least extra things you have to know to
> get a good understanding of how the system works. Things are
> stable and consistent, and managing the system doesn't require
> much more than an understanding of the command line and a text
> editor. This can't be said for the other systems. Since you will
> be using the command line a lot in your C.S. careers anyways,
> it's a very good opportunity for you to use Slackware as well.
>
> Slackware also has the advantage that it's very easy to
> customize and has some of the most up-to-date software packages
> around. Combined the its stability, Slackware makes it easier
> for me to discuss the latest and greatest without sacrificing a
> stable system. It also let's you as an user get what you want
> on the system with a minimal of hassle. This is an advantage
> when we're teaching you how to use Linux.
>
> And, possibly the other interesting tidbit: if you come out
> of this knowing how to use Slackware, then you can comfortably
> migrate to any Linux system without trouble. That can't be said
> for the others.
>
> I look forward to seeing you all! Please send me comments, concerns,
> conflicts, questions, and the like.
>
> Aaron W. Hsu
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