[879] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Teaching IAP Linux Class
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abbe Cohen)
Thu Jan 5 15:47:29 1995
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 15:47:08 -0500
From: abbe@konstantin.MIT.EDU (Abbe Cohen)
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: abbe@MIT.EDU, mwhitson@MIT.EDU
Erik came up with a pretty reasonable schedule to aim for with the
class. Since nobody else suggested anything that conflicts, I'm
sticking with it. So far I have volunteers to teach the Tuesday and
Wednesdayish material, but we need people to teach everything else.
Day 1 - Introduction
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Main Speaker - ????
* What is Linux?
* Why should I run Linux?
* Demos of Linux-Athena apps, general Linux, commercial sw like
Maple and Xess if available, Linux Doom, other apps
* Discussion of basic issues
- What is a "distribution"
- System requirements
* Answer general questions
Day 2 - Initial Installation
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Main Speaker - nygren
* Making boot disks
* Paritioning hard disk (and discussion of hd partitions)
* Installation of Slackware (both off net and off of floppies)
* Network configuration
* X Windows configuration (maybe on day 3?)
Day 3 - More installation
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Main Speaker - ghudson
* Filesystem layout (maybe on day 2 or day 4?)
* Installation of Linux-Athena
* Installation of Linux-AFS
* Using Linux-Athena
* Security on resnet (kerberos, telnet -safe, etc)
Day 4 - What are all those files in /etc anyways?
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Main Speaker - ????
* Building a kernel
* Using LILO
* Overview of various config files in /etc and elsewhere
(inittab, rc.*, fstab, inetd.conf, csh.*, profile, hosts,
resolv.conf, passwd, services, syslog.conf, etc)
* Advanced Linux-Athena issues
- xlogin/dm
* Apps available in AFS and on the net (octave, Maple,
gnuplot, xpaint, Xess, etc)
Day 5 - Everything else
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Main Speaker - ????
* Configuring printers
* Configuring sendmail :-)
* More network configuration
- named
- ppp (Bluebox)
* Serving ftp
* Serving http
* Linux Doom (of course.... :-)
- srvtab and kerberized services
So, I'm looking for 3 volunteers who mostly have a clue about one of
days 1, 4, and 5, who are also free on those days from 5:30 to 7 pm.
If necessary, I can probably speak for most of Day 1 myself, with a
few clue dumps from people beforehand and with help setting up demos.
I'd rather someone else volunteer, if possible. It would be nice to
have a machine for demos on monday.. Greg, can you spare yours?
Also, I'm willing to help generate things like handouts and overheads
and whatnot if people want them. I can't write them myself if I don't
know about what you're going to be teaching though... My initial
thought is that we don't need much more than copies of ilinux-athena
to be handed out, but I guess it's up to the people teaching each part
whether they want there to be a corresponding piece of paper to go
with it.
-abbe
