[kwlug-disc] Linux & Linux admin for newbies

James Kelsh freshmeadow1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 08:14:12 EST 2018


I would be happy to do it in March. I am thinking to include installation on bare metal from a dvd, USB stick, and maybe dual booting and installing 
from an iso in a VM too.
Let's talk further at the February meeting.
Jim

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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 10:24 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> That would be fantastic. Could you slot your presentation in March?
> 
> - Paul
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 08:18:31PM -0500, James Kelsh wrote:
>> Hello all. I have been away for a while because I started teaching at Conestoga College and depending on what school you are in it takes over your life. Anyway, the beginner sessions sound like a great idea! I know I could still benefit as I do not work with Linux but have been using it for some time. 
>> I would be happy to give a short talk on how to install Linux on a laptop. 
>> I did give 2 talks in the past, one on Knoppix and the other on converting an OEM installation of Windows 7 into a virtual machine using disk2vhd and running it under Ubuntu. 
>> Just a thought. 
>> Anyway, hope to see everyone at the February meeting. 
>> Jim Kelsh
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> 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?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>                *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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