[kwlug-disc] Linux & Linux admin for newbies

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Wed Jan 17 18:34:54 EST 2018 

Great. Who will volunteer to give some of these newbie talks or
sysadmin talks or filesystem talks? I will be happy to slot them in.
We could split the meeting half and half or we could change the split.
But somebody has to step up and volunteer.

- Paul

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:14:51PM +0000, Chamunks wrote:
> What if, in order to help improve on attendance we do a beginners portion
> and a deep dive portion of the KWLUG rather then just exclusively the 2
> hour format where its all heavy from start to finish we try to have a
> beginner section from 7 where we cover some light stuff and then go into a
> deep dive in the second half.  This way we can bring more rookies into the
> fold.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:25 AM Andrew Sullivan Cant <
> acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Robert Elder was also running a Linux basics meetup last year, but has
> > not run any events yet this year:
> > https://www.meetup.com/Intro-to-Linux-Command-line-C-Programming/
> >
> > He also has some Linux how to material on his own website:
> > https://www.robertelder.org/
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > On 16/01/18 22:06, Joan Currie wrote:
> > > I'd like that as well.   Cheers, Joan.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com
> > > <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I think a presentation on GNU/Linux file systems is a great idea!
> > >     Always good to go back to basics sometimes
> > >
> > >     --Bob
> > >
> > >     On January 16, 2018 3:34:55 PM EST, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com
> > >     <mailto:chamunks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >         If its a noobie meetup covering the Linux filesystem and things
> > >         like that could really help get peoples head around things its
> > >         logical to us veterans but it might help to discuss the
> > >         differences between the major distros and some of the history
> > etc.
> > >
> > >         On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:17 AM CrankyOldBugger
> > >         <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>>
> > >         wrote:
> > >
> > >             +1 on the edX course...
> > >
> > >
> > >             On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 at 03:08 Sandeep Johri
> > >             <sandeepjohri at rogers.com <mailto:sandeepjohri at rogers.com>>
> > >             wrote:
> > >
> > >                 I'd also suggest joining the free Introduction to Linux
> > >                 course on EdX.  I found it helpful.
> > >
> > >                 Regards
> > >
> > >                 Sandeep
> > >
> > >                 From:
> > >                 Sandeep Johri
> > >
> > >                 On 15/01/18 01:01 PM, peter_melse at gto.net
> > >                 <mailto:peter_melse at gto.net> wrote:
> > >>                 DevOps talk suggestions:
> > >>
> > >>                 configuration management (puppet, chef, ansible, salt,
> > >>                 etc.)
> > >>                 automated deployment (satellite, the foreman)
> > >>                 patch management (aptly, landscape, and the rhel
> > >>                 equivalents?)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>                 *Subject:* [kwlug-disc] Linux & Linux admin for newbies
> > >>                 *Date:* Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:18:10 -0500
> > >>                 *From:* <jvj at golden.net> <mailto:jvj at golden.net>
> > >>                 *To:* kwlug <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > >>                 <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > >>                 *Reply-To:* KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > >>                 <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > >>
> > >>                 Linux & Linux admin for newbies
> > >>
> > >>                 In last week's meeting an attendee was self described
> > >>                 as a Linux newbie and explained that Linux admin was
> > >>                 an interest.
> > >>                 As I identified with the "newbie" aspect I gave the
> > >>                 attendee a short list of topics to study.
> > >>                 This list (somewhat modified) follows - and shows that
> > >>                 I am somewhat dated.
> > >>                 And I invite the members to copy and and add to this
> > >>                 list to help other new newbies who might subscribe to
> > >>                 these discussions.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>                 *IX == UNIX (history)
> > >>                 (with reference to Tim's recap of last week.)
> > >>
> > >>                 Command Line Input aka CLI
> > >>                 Terminal
> > >>                 Screen
> > >>                 Shell & BASH Shell
> > >>                 BASH scripting
> > >>                 tar
> > >>                 ssh
> > >>                 gnome
> > >>                 unity
> > >>                 gnome vs unity
> > >>                 text editors: vi & vim & [other]
> > >>
> > >>                 Linux admin (aka DevOps)
> > >>                 I have nothing to add here - and am looking for topics.
> > >>                 (hint: I go back to fsck)
> > >>
> > >>                 Regards
> > >>                 JohnJ
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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