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- To: seul-pub@seul.org
- Subject: Re: SEUL: Linux command-line focus
- From: "Pete St. Onge" <pete@seul.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:34:43 -0400
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Hi Kylie, > The systems that we can build are a little limited - hence a > reliance on the command line and text type applications. Perhaps > you could check out the documentation project happening at one of > the computerbank branches - http://www.computerbank.org.au/perth/ > It is designed as a simple guide to using linux. I looked at 'Introduction to Computers and GNU/Linux,' and I liked the fact that this doc is being started as part of a 'training course' - this would help to spread out the material and ensure that the student leaves the course with a good deal of useful knowledge. A general conern I have from the perspective of the end user, particularly for someone coming to linux having little computer experience, is having a document which is concise and small enough to be read / searched though easily. I worry that many new users will be put off by having to learn things which they were insulated from as Mac or Windows users (ie. CLI, permissions, job control). The LDP articles which are linked to on this page are well-written, but they are quite substantial. What I would like to see is a smaller document, which gives the reader enough of a basis to deal with some of the more common problems initially, and help point them to more comprehensive resources elsewhere. I'm fleshing out a proposal to do just that, and it should be posted here in the next couple of days. There may be some common points between the proposed course docs and this 'simple end user linux howto' doc. > Do you mind if i forward some of the posts about the CLI on to the > computerbank mailing list? Sounds good. The arrangements are still being made, but an initial page should get up in the next week or so at the latest. Cheers, Pete -- Pete St. Onge - McGill U. Limnology - Fun with Ropes & Buckets pete@seul.org http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4322052 --------------------------------------------------------------- SEUL - Linux for All! http://www.seul.org Programming For Science Page http://www.trentu.ca/~erpds 1 9 A p r i l 1 9 9 9 - V I N D I C A T I O N D A Y
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