Sunday 13/02/2005

Notes

It was given by our good talker member Ahmed El-Makawy AKA Linuxawy and it was good start. The pepole liked the idea of learning something new like GNU/Linux...

Who We Are:

• what is eglug
  • who we are ?
  • who are the pepole that will give the course
  • it`s totally Volunteer work from Eglug
  • it`s totally Volunteer work from Life Makers Alex

Background:

• History of GNU/Linux
  • When and why Unix have been coded.
  • when and where BSD have been coded.
  • GNU' Not Unix and Richard Stallman.
  • Linus and the kernel
• 4 Freedoms
• GPL
• Why Linux
  • Security
  • Open Source.
  • No worms ,no crashes and no more blue screen of death.
  • Almost no price.
  • True multiuser system.
• What Linux Consistes Of
  • Kernel
  • X server
  • GNU tools
  • GNU Development tools
  • Desktop
• What is Mount points
  • Linux single Tree system
  • /mnt
  • why mount?
• Hardware problems
  • Winmodems problem.
• How to get help
  • distro. docs.
  • Google.com/linux
  • eglug.org
  • Eglug Channel @ irc.freenode.net

• Alex Life Makers Team Burnt 10 copies Of Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official (3CDs) And Give It To The Attendees For Free.
• Every Attendee Had To Pay 20 Egyption Pound For The Full Course (10 Hours) As A Rent Of The Pcs To The Education Center.

Tuesday 15/02/2005

Notes

Today it was about Mandrakelinux Installation , given by Sherif Nagy AKA DarKnesS_WolF Don`t know if it was good enough or no...

Installation BackGround:

• How to boot from the cdrom
• what are the basic concepts of installing any oprating system:
  • Partitioning.
  • Hardware Detection.
  • Locale Selection ( Keyboard / Time / Location ).
  • Package Selection.
  • Boot Loader.

The Installation:

• what F1 do
  • low resolution installation.
  • text mode installation.
• How to add arabic keyboard and change Arabic To / From English.
• Security Levels.
• Partitioning:
  • Get the harddisk ready for Installation under windows by deleting one partition from windows.
  • Use resizing tool if u have one partition.
  • What are the 4 choices:
    • Use Free Space.
    • Erase Entire Disk.
    • Use The Free Space Of The Windows Partition.
    • Custom Disk Partitioning.
  • using Ext3
  • using custom partitioning
    • /
    • Swap
    • /home
• what is / and what / has inside.
  • / is a directory and physical driver in the harddisk.
  • why we can have seperate /home.
  • quick look at / and what's inside it ( should be explained at another time but people asked )
• Package Selection:
  • what are workstation packages.
  • what are servers packages.
  • what is LSB.
  • what are GUIs packages.
• Root User:
  • password should be hard and complex.
  • very important user.
  • root home directory is /root NOT /.
  • use no password when you are the only one using the computer, no internet connection and know what u r doing.
  • using advanced options when your network is using any authentication services.
• Add users:
  • Accept user.
  • Add more than one user.
  • user auto login KDE.
• Boot Loader
  • install it as MBR is the best for new users.
• Hardware Configuration:
  • Country
  • Time
  • AutoDetect the sound card / mouse / printer /
  • Network wasn`t configured yet.
  • Graphical interface
    • Card Detected
    • Must test the options.
    • choose the resolution.
  • What are Services.
  • Firewall ( No Firewall )
• no updates since no connection.
• Last Screen
  • Advanced
    • Create Disk to install the same system u installed.
      • ask u for partitioning.
      • remove the whole harddisk.
    • save the package selection.
  • Reboot

• TWO USERS DIDN`T COME ( ONE USER CAME 1ST CLASS , AND ONE EVEN DIDN`T CAME THE 1ST CLASS ) BUT THERE WAS A REPLACEMENT.
• EGLUG PRINTED PAPER PAMPHLETS FOR ALL THE ATTENDEES ( PRINTED BY LINUXAWY , PHOTOCOPY BY LIFE MAKERS ALEX TEAM ).

Thursday 17/2/2005

Notes

Today's session was about desktop usage using KDE/GNOME, popular apps on Linux. It was given by Ahmed El Sherbiny AKA ShErbO. Hope it was good enough.

• X structure
  • What is the X server ? What does it do ?
  • What is the DE ?
  • What is the windowmanager ?

• KDE intro
  • Virtual Desktops concept
  • Control Center
  • Panel, etc....

• Package Management intro
  • The concept of packages
  • The purpose of packages
  • Installing RPMs graphically

• GNOME intro
  • Nautilus
  • Various apps...

• Popular Apps
  • Office suites discussion
  • Graphics (GIMP)
  • Multimedia (xmms, eye of gnome, xine, gmplayer etc...)
  • IM (gaim)
  • Internet (mozilla, epiphany, konqueror)

Sunday 20/2/2005

Notes

Talker was Sherif Nagy AKA DarKnesS_WolF . we just finished the half of the mandrake control center.

Mandrake Control Center.

• Boot Section:
  • Make auto login.
  • Modify the boot loader options.
  • Changing boot theme.
• Hardware Section:
  • Hardware and how to view our hardware info.
  • Other devices unknown to Linux.
  • Reconfigure Xserver.
  • Add printer.
  • Add Scanner.
  • How to share printer and scanner.
  • Keyboard and Mouse.
• Mount Points:
  • Partitioning and resize howto.
  • how the linux read the /dev/hda , /dev/hdb and /dev/hda1 .
  • NFS Mount Points.
  • Samba Mount Points, to get the shared from windows PCs.
  • webdev.
  • local disk sharing and how to share dirs. in ur computer.
• Network Section:
  • Make new connection.
  • Manage connections.
  • remove old connection.

• we can have more than one connection.
• proxy setup.
• internet sharing.

• Security:
  • what is level and checks.
    • Users and Groups in short.
  • Permissions ( r , w , x )
  • Firewall, and why we use Advanced option.

• WE STARTED LATE 40 MIN SOME COURSE BEFORE US MESSED THE TIME TABLE, ONLY 4 ATTENDEES AND ONLY ONE ATTENDEE SAID THAT HE IS ILL AND CAN`T COME.
• PEOPLE WERE SO INTERESTED IN SCANNER SHARING.

Tuesday 22/2/2005

Notes

Today Sherif Nagy AKA DarKnesS_WolF talked about some command line and the rest of Mandrake Control Center.. and was the final session

Mandrake Control Center (ctd.)

• system
  • Menus .. and system menu.
  • Display Manager.
  • Services
    • What services do.
    • dm service.
  • Fonts and how to install tahoma font.
  • Date and time
  • Logs and searching in the system logs.
  • Users and Groups
    • How to add new user
  • Backups
    • Why backup.
    • How to backup.
    • How to restore.
• Software Mangement
  • Install
    • Search rpms by names and description.
    • View the groups of software.
  • Remove software.
  • Updates
  • Media Manager.
    • How to add all kinds of media.
  • Drakewizard
    • What is drakewizard. and what it`s can do.

Command Line

• cd
• cp
  • -rf and why.
• rm ( same way as cp )
• mv
• less
• cat
• head / tail
  • pipping between head and tail.
• ls
• touch
• mkdir
• file
• redirect command output to a file.

OFF COURSE

• Explain how to create apache web server and postfix mail server using drakewizard tool.
• Creating database using MySQL.

• THATS WAS THE LAST SESSION.
• NEXT COURSE WILL BE AFTER TWO WEEKS.
• WE TALKED WITH LIFE MAKERS ALEX TEAM ABOUT THE BAD POINTS IN THE COURSE ( AS IT`S OUR 1ST TIME IN EDUCATION STUFF ) THEY SAID:
  • TAKE NOTES ( THAT WHAT WE WAS DOING BUT IN OUR HEAD ).
  • MY WRITING IS BAD ON THE BOARD AND NOT ORGINZED. ( CAN`T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SINCE ALREADY MY WRITING IS BAD ).
  • ONLY ONE TALKER PER CLASS ( CUZ SOMETIME ME AND LINUXAWY WERE TALKING INFRONT OF THE ATTENDEES {WIT\CH I GUESS IS OK IF HE CORRECTS ME OR I CORRECT HIM SO THE INFO DOESN`T GO IN THE WRONG WAY} ).
  • IN SOME STUFF I DON`T KNOW I SAID I DON`T KNOW . THEY WERE SAYING IT`S NO NEED TO SAY DON`T KNOW .. JUST SAY I`LL LOOK FOR IT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT ( WE AGREED THAT AT THE 1ST OF THE COURSE WE WILL EXPLAIN WHAT THE COURSE COVERS ) SO NO QUESTION OUT THE COURSE AND IF THERE IS ANY IF WE KNOW WE ANSWER . IF WE DON`T WE GUIDE THEM TO HOW TO GET HELP AGAIN.
• IT WAS SO FRIENDLY TALKING AND IT`S WAS GOOD SO WE DON`T FALL IN SAME MISTAKES AGAIN.