[wplug] beginner tutorial

[Weber, Larry A]

Great list.  I would like to add:
Adding and removing hardware (sound cards, drives, NICs, etc.)
Managing PATH.
A tour of the too many configuration files.
X
Serial and parallel port programming
Accessing I/O mapped ports

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard Harris [SMTP:ftumph at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 12, 2002 12:53 PM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	Re: [wplug] beginner tutorial
> 
> 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=11
> 0&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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