[Ale-school] Fwd: a clear partition in educational disciplines

[Jim Kinney]

gotta fix the reply to data in the list...


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From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Ale-school] a clear partition in educational disciplines
To: Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com>


So a full curriculum break-down will need to include command line
(more server oriented concepts) and X (more desktop oriented
concepts).

X will need to be addressed from the (always confusing) client-server
standpoint.

The 2 major GUI's, KDE and Gnome, will need coverage as well as a good
intro to the alternatives such at XFCE, enlightenment, twm, tiny-X,
(others?).

I'm heavily inclined to think that the entire process begins with a
brief history of GNU and the GPL as those tools and license are the
reason Linux exists today.


Further thoughts on topics to be addressed:
Installation - Linux as sole OS as well as multi-boot concepts
Boot up process
 - init scripts
 - GRUB
 - run levels - different platforms have different names for these
Shells - high level overview leading to simple scripting in bash.
Advanced scripting concepts
Libraries - similarities and differences between .a, .so and dll's
Filesystems
Permissions
Special users vs. normal users
daemons and processes
RAM, swap and general memory issues
Networking - primarily ethernet but also hints of serial port stuff like netcat
Advanced topics : LVM, RAID, LDAP, NFS, SAMBA
Troubleshooting - each section should include troubleshooting concepts
 - identifying data relevant to troubleshooting boot failure caused
by misconfig vs. hard drive error (specific example but a more general
approach)

more later...


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Mike Harrison<meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>> Like I said I don't do the Goo. I could, however, teach a course on
>> CLI essentials.
>
> Laughing... I use the Goo for a web browser, music/video plater and xterm.
> I'm even using Pine for e-mail, I understand. :)
>
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