Minutes for 10-24-2006

1. Call to Order
This was our second ACM tutorial of the semester, held in Bell 242 from 7:30PM to 9PM. The topic was “Introduction to Linux” and “Shell scripting,” done by Matt Miller.

2. Introduction to Linux

• Installing/partitioning
• Dual booting
• Different distros (distrowatch.org)
• Text Editor
• pico/nano
• emacs
• vi
• Graphical editors(Bluefish)
• IDE's
• Eclipse
• NetBeans
• Emacs
• GCC
• Software on Linux similar to Windows/Mac
• OpenOffice
• Media players (Mplayer,Mplayerplug-in, RealPlayer)
• SuperKaramba (http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html)
• GkrellM
• XGL(http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/xgl/)
• Wine/Cedega
• Packages
• RPM, DEB, versus source

3. Linux Console

• tab completion
• alias(bashrc)
• root/sudo
• logs
• grep/find
• config files
• piping - more/less
• running commands (bg/fg)
• filesystem
• file permissions(chmod...)
• hidden files
• mounting/fstab
• smb mounting
• man/info(available online)
• ssh/scp/ftp
• kill command
• ps ax / top
• shell script(backup utility)
• tar(gzip, bzip2)
• cron/at

4. Linux Resources

• Google/linux
• LinuxQuestions
• Sourceforge
• Freshmeat