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Sat, 07/08/2004 - 11:13am — Manal

Sun 1-8-2004

Schedule:

5:30 6:30 Background on Free Software and Open Source
6:30 7:00 Installation
7:00 7:15 Break while package installation
7:15 8:00 Installation (cont.)
8:00 8:30 Desktop components

Notes:

Background:

Free Software (4 freedoms)
Open Source (security in Linux)
Q: Benefits of Free Software\Open Source
- Do it yourself
- Limited markets\needs (e.g gimp module for color blind ppl)
- Price (legal)

Installation:

What is Booting?
- BIOS
General rules of installing a new operating system?
- Partitioning
- Package Selection
- Locale selection
- Hardware configuration
- Boot Loader
- Network configuration
Partions in Linux:
- at least 2
- swap
Hardware problems?
- with internal modems
- Linux comes with all drivers
Security:
- Levels
- Administrator (root user)
Partitioning:
- If you have windows there will be 1 more options (use free space on windows)
- You need to defrag before resizing a windows partition
Custom disk partitioning
types of file system
- use journalized ext3
Packages:
- Desktop layers
- LSB: Linux standard Base
- If you choose to install servers, Mandrake makes sure of your choice (security)
Users
- / and the root user are not related
- Multiuser system
- Administrator is the only user who can change the settings of the system
- you need to press accept user before you press next
Boot Loader
- accept the suggested options

There was an error in the Cds so we delayed the rest of the installation demonstration to the 2nd session and skiped to Desktop demonstration.

Desktop:

Clipboard
Maximize, Minimize
Mandrake Documentation

What do use Computer in?

Office
Internet
Multimedia
Programming:
- C++ (can do it on Linux)
- C# (under developmnet)
- C (can do it on Linux)
- Visual Basic (Gambas is similar)
- Visual C++ (can't do it, it's a M$ product)
- Java (can do it on Linux)
- Scripting (perl, python, php)
- for embeded devices (can do it on Linux)
Graphics
- photoshop (GIMP)
- flash

Tue 3-8-2004

Schedule:

5:30 6:00 Continue Installation
6:00 7:00 Basic Desktop Apps
- 5 min applets & panels
- 15 min OOWriter
- 10 min OOCalc, OOImpress
- 15 min mozilla
- 5 min mozilla mail, kontact, kolab
- 10 min kopete
7:00 7:15 Break
7:15 7:40 ssh, konquerer (sftp), Liferea, gftp
7:40 8:10 Multimedia
8:10 8:40 Other Apps

Notes:

Installation (cont.)

root user, useers
Location
Time Zone
- GMT (Don't select it if yoou are using windows)
- ???
Network
- Installer thinks you are using dhcp, but you need to configure the network
- LAN connection (also if you have DSL @ home)
- choose eth0
- ignore that it's already detected and manual config it
- remove network hot plugin option (useful if you will remove the cable in the middle of the install)
- configure the network same as we configured it before (59, 60, 61, 62, 29, 63, 64) gateway (1.1)
DNS:
- 62.140.73.1
- 62.140.73.2
- 161.121.2.2
Firewall:
- everything allowed
Updates
- select No
Last screen: (Advanced button)
- Auto install floppy (useful if you will install on other identical PCs)
- Save package selection (useful if you will install on other different PCs and you want to install the same set of packages)

Will need to install:

Mozilla (better do it while installation)
Scribus
Superkaramba
Nvu
Blender
Inkscape
Lifrea

Desktop:

Add panel
Applets
KDE --> configure your desktop

Office:

KOffice and GnomeOffice
OpenOffice:
- OOWriter (styles, export to pdf, advanced html)
- OOCalc (more accurate, gnumeric, export to pdf)
- OOImpress (export to pdf or macromedia flash)
- OpenOffice has a windows version

Internet Apps:

Netscape 1998 --> Mozilla
Konquerer
Mozilla
- CTRL T --> open new tabs
- F9 --> sidebar (search, bookmarks, history)
- sidebar is expandable (news)
- edit --> preferences --> languages (make default character encoding windows 1256)
- Apperance ==> plugins (XUL platform)
Mozilla mail
- same as outlook express
- can open newsgroups
- scripts to get your email from yahoo, hotmail, gmail
Kontact
- same as Microsoft Outlook
- to do + mail + ...
Kolab
Kopete
- needs upgrade for yahoo and msn
- video & voice chat not supported yet (working on it in gaim)
- plugins (dictionary, encryption)
Konquerer
- network icon (sftp://ip)
Liferea
- get RSS feed of EGLUG
- In preferences: use browser command (mozilla %s)
gftp
kget (equivalent to getright)

Multimedia:

Totem (get movies from sftp://192.168.1.64)
Gmplayer and Mplayer
Gimp 2 (/usr/share/wallpapers)
Gqview
- duplicate (grap all & drop, compare by)
- info about digital images
- Sort manager
kdeinlive (similar to moviemaker)
- Cinelara (hard), Avidimux (easy)
Audicity
- Ardur (hard)
Blender (equivalent tp 3dmax)
- export source code to OpenGL
- scripts with python (3d interactive)
- filter ability
- Blender interactive version generates executables for windows, makintosh and Linux
Inkscape
- supports svg
- make paths that you can use for filters or selection areas in gimp
Qcad (office --> graphs)
Superkaramba
- /usr/share/apps/superkaramba/themes
- move it eith ALT
Nvu
Gnucash (office --> finances)
Scribus (equivalent to publisher, quarkx express)
- desktopp publishing tools
- no arabic support yet
Dia: connected graphs (office --> graphs)
Imageseek (just mentioned it)
LyX
- WYSIWYM
- export to pdf

Web Apps:

70% of the web servers are apache servers

Thr 5-8-2004

Schedule:

5:40 7:20 Components & Concepts
7:20 7:35 Break
7:35 8:00 Permissions, Users & Groups
8:00 8:30 Mandrake Control Center
8:30 8:45 How to get HELP

Notes:

Closer look on the OS (components and concepts)

Compatible with Unix
GNU\Linux didn't take of Unix but is similar to it
Simplicity:
- single task, do it well
- procedure for communication
Linux kernel:
- hardware drivers
- networking
- file system
GNU tools:
GNU Development tools:
- libraries
- compilers (install, build)
- use it if you want to compile a driver for example
we can say that Linux consists of:
- kernel
- GNU tools
- GNU development tools
hardware
- --> kernel
  - --> X server
    - --> desktop
graphical == X window system
login in failsafe
- graphical interface without desktop environment
- no panels, icons, background, borders, menu
- CTRL + ALT + backspace to logout of graphical interface
Client - Server:
- X window
- cups (for printers)
- sane (for scanners)
Samba
- see windows network
- see windows share
- share from my desktop
services:
- crond
- sshd
Single tree
file names (case sensitive)
file system
- choose depends on the purpose of the directory

file tree (EVERYTHING is a FILE):

(not finished yet)

Questions Asked during the course:

Q: Where is the source code?

You can get the source code of the GNU\Linux OS and its Free Applications from the internet, visit the website of the projecr/software and you will find its source code.