Admin messages to [LBo]
These important messages explain how we go ahead in the course. These links point to the original posts in the mailing-list-archives.
- Week 32: Chapter 42.Compiling the Kernel
- Week 31: Chapter 41. Point-to-Point Protocol -- Dialup Networking
- Week 30: Chapter 38. SQL-Databases
- Week 29: Chapter 36. httpd -- Apache Web Server
- Week 28: The missing weeks...
- Week 26: Chapter 39. smbd - The Samba Server
- Week 27: Chapter 43. How to get a job to open in X
- Week 25: Chapter 37. crond and atd
- Week 24: Chapter 34. uucp and uux and the modern equivalents: scp, ssh, rsync, ...
- Week 23: Chapter 32. init, ? getty, and UNIX Run Levels
- Week 22: Chapter 31. Booting
- Week 21: Chapter 30. Behind the scenes of E-Mail
- Week 20: nothing
- Week 19: Chapter 29 inetd
- Week 18 - NFS (Chapter 28)
- Week 17 - Networking (Chapters 25/26/27)
- Weeks 15 & 16: Christmas-Break
- Week 14 - 24: Source and Binary Packages
- Week 13 - 21: lpd – the Printer Service and optional: C-Intro/DLLs
- Week 12 - 19: Partitions and optional 20: Advanced Bash Scripting
- Week 11 - 15, 17/35 and 18: Symbolic and Hard Links, Overview of the UNIX Directory Layout, and UNIX Devices
- Week 10 - 12, 13, 16: Using Internet Services - LINUX Resources - Pre-installed Documentation
- Week 9 - 11 & 14 User Accounts and User Ownerships / Permission and Modification Times
- Week 8 - 10.x: Mail
- Week 7 - 9.x: Processes and Environment Variables
- Week 6 - 8.x Streams and sed
- Week 5 - 7.x Shell Scripting
- Week 4 - 5.x Regex and 6.x Editing
- Week 3 - 4.x Basic commands
- Week 2 - 3.x Hardware
- Week 1 - Class starts now: 1.x Introduction and 2.x Computing Sub-basics - This post officially kicked off the course, clarifying some issues that came up between Sept., 10th and 15th.
2005-09-10: Rute class is about to start
This post explains the basic requirements for the course, like joining the [LBo]-mailing-list. It is the only message that has been sent not to the [LBo]-list, but to everybody individually. Thus it is not in the list-archives :(
This post has been heavily edited. If you want the ‘historic version’ that went to all subscribers,
check this page's history.
Hello everybody,
summer vacations are over and our LBo-class is about to start on September 15th.
It is time to make some final preparations, so everybody can participate.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Make sure you receive the LBo-mailinglist.
You recognize these mails by the [LBo] in their subject line. If you do not have those in your inbox, it is time to visit mailman: listinfo and subscribe to the list.
You do need access to the RUTE-book.
Depending on your internet-connection, you might want to download a copy to your PC, so you do not have to go online in order to read it. Details can be found in the course describtion and on the page about getting the RUTE-PDF
You need to have access to a computer that is running linux.
If you did not install Linux yet, now is the time to do so. In case you have problems with that, you can ask on the mailing-list for assistance: qna@LinuxBasics.org
Try joining the IRC-channel
If you have never tried out the Internet Relay Chat, you should do so now:
- Get a IRC-client (“Chat-program”, maybe this one: http://www.xchat.org/about/).
- Pick a nickname,
- connect to the irc.freenode.net server,
- wait until you see the line “End of /MOTD command.”,
- issue the command “/join #LBo” (without the quotes)
You should see something like the screenshot in our IRC tutorial
Ready to go!
With those 4 steps described above, you will be ready for class. We are looking forward to an interesting learning experience with you during the weeks to come. Don’t forget to post your questions and comments to the list: qna@LinuxBasics.org
Yours,
Anita, Sam and Stefan
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Welcome to LinuxBasics.org - The online community that helps people to get Linux installed and running.
During this tour, we will guide you through our website, which has many facets which wait to be explored
The biggest project we are running is our Linux course, based on the LBook.
The book is stored in wiki-format, which enables us to update and correct it as we go.
Discussion for the course is on our Forum
Our Forum is used for discussion of Linux and for questions and answers.
Search the mailing-list that was used prior to the Forum.
The questions and answers from the list are stored in the list's archives in order to help others with the same problems.
Every weekend, we meet to chat in IRC. These meetings are NOT mandatory, but are a nice chance to get to know each other better.
IRC is also a great tool to solve many problems, since it is very quick and easy to ask for more details if you need them.
The tutorials are one of the oldest sections on the LBo-website.
Here you find explanations on how to do specific tasks in Linux. Many of the tutorials were created after a certain problem
has been discussed (and usually solved :) on the mailing-list.
The tutorials are categorized in
In the links section, you find outbound links to other valuable resources.
One of our later additions to the site. We maintain a mirror of the Linux Documentation Project. This is our contribution to the "home of the HOWTOs"
Another later addition is the LBlog which focuses on how to do stuff on the Linux Desktop. It begins with the basics on installing Ubuntu.
Using the integrated site-search, you can search the tutorials, the LBook and all other wiki-pages
Simply type the search term into the box in the upper-right corner of our webpages
As a community, we depend on your feedback and collaboration. So, if you have something to share with others, please contact us. If you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see covered here, please add it on the Wishlist.
There are many ways to contribute: You can answer questions on the Forum, you can write a complete tutorial or just a step-by-step documentation on how you completed a specific task using linux. Ask questions if the information on this site is not clear, tell us if we got something wrong, spell-check our writings, whatever.
We are looking forward to meeting you at LinuxBasics.org
Anita, Jisao, Sam and Stefan