[wplug] beginner tutorial

[Richard Harris]

I think just a tutorial on how to do basic tasks that
are often straight-forward in Windows but not so
intuitive in a Linux environment:

1.  Add/Edit a printer
2.  Change screen resolution/color depth
3.  Create file associations
3a. Putting application icons on the desktop or menu.
4.  Install new applications & where to find them
4a. Remove unused applications
4b. Update existing applications
5.  Create a user
6.  Manage the path, library path, etc.
7.  Change network settings
8.  Add MIME type handlers for Mozilla

Bonus points for:  how to install a new hardware
driver

- Rick

--- J Aaron Farr <jaaronfarr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- James O'Kane <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
> > We missed having a tutorial last month because I
> ran out of time to 
> > prepare. The next tutorial is scheduled for a
> month from Saturday and I'd 
> > like some brainstorm ideas for things I should
> include in a tutorial aimed 
> > at people using linux for the first time. They can
> be userlevel or 
> > rootlevel things. Try thinking back to your first
> year of using linux and 
> > email me something that you wish someone would
> have told you on your first 
> > day.
> > 
> > -james
> > 
> 
> I recently set up a linux box for my family.  My
> younger sister fell in love
> with Tuxracer and Xbill, so she was always in Linux.
>  My father wanted to get
> back into computers and catch up on technology.
> 
> I ended up writing a very long email that went over
> some of the basics for
> linux: things like commonly used command line
> programs (ls, cp, cd), the ideas
> of file permissions, what a home directory is, why
> you have to "mount" CDs and
> floppies and how to do so, and a quick overview of
> the file structure.  This
> last thing, the file structure, is probably what I
> wished to understand better
> the most when I first started.  "What is the /usr
> and /etc directory?"  "Where
> should I install new software?"  Things like this
> confused me for a while when
> I first started with Unix/Linux.  There is a logic
> behind the Unix file
> structure, a very good logic, but that logic isn't
> always apparent without
> someone explaining it to you.
> 
> Also things like 'man' pages and 'info' pages, ways
> users can explore and find
> more info (like the Linux Documentation project or
> Sourceforge or Freshmeat
> ...), these are all things a new user should know
> about.
> 
> In general, when approaching new linux users, I try
> to think about what type of
> common daily activities one does on a computer
> (thing s you don't even think
> about anymore like copying a file) and how these
> activities are different in
> linux.
> 
> There was a slashdot post by a new user recently
> that I thought was
> interesting.  Check out:
>
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35367&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=110&mode=thread&cid=3821651
> 
> Just some thoughts...
> jaaron
> 
> PS- If we have a tutorial like this, we may also
> want to prepare some "live"
> CDs of linux (like demo linux, there are some
> others), that way some new users
> could attend and try out linux on their computer
> without having to install.
> 
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