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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:47:24PM +0100, paul wrote: > Perhaps a choice of topics should be > > 1. What is GPL / GNU Problem is that in order to understand this fully needs quite a bit of the history of copyright and proprietary licensing explaining. But starting a "computer course" with a history lesson might well upset many of the students.. > 2. Linux and Unix a brief history > > These give the background to the software > > Getting help and how to use irc, usenet to best effect, and where to look > for help and how to ask for help. Perhaps earlier. > > 3. Distributions - > 4. The shell (bash or whatever) and when to use different shells > 5 text editing, and creating scripts, perfer to use a neural editor e.g > joe to avoid any vi/emacs wars. > 6. Shell scripting At a more basic level than this issues such as the filesystem, permissions, system calls, processes, etc need explaining. Especially where things differ from the Windows way of doing things. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.