[kwlug-disc] Linux & Linux admin for newbies

Andrew Sullivan Cant acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 17 10:23:46 EST 2018


Robert Elder was also running a Linux basics meetup last year, but has
not run any events yet this year:
https://www.meetup.com/Intro-to-Linux-Command-line-C-Programming/

He also has some Linux how to material on his own website:
https://www.robertelder.org/

Andrew


On 16/01/18 22:06, Joan Currie wrote:
> I'd like that as well.   Cheers, Joan.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com
> <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I think a presentation on GNU/Linux file systems is a great idea!
>     Always good to go back to basics sometimes
> 
>     --Bob
> 
>     On January 16, 2018 3:34:55 PM EST, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com
>     <mailto:chamunks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         If its a noobie meetup covering the Linux filesystem and things
>         like that could really help get peoples head around things its
>         logical to us veterans but it might help to discuss the
>         differences between the major distros and some of the history etc.
> 
>         On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:17 AM CrankyOldBugger
>         <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
> 
>             +1 on the edX course...
> 
> 
>             On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 at 03:08 Sandeep Johri
>             <sandeepjohri at rogers.com <mailto:sandeepjohri at rogers.com>>
>             wrote:
> 
>                 I'd also suggest joining the free Introduction to Linux
>                 course on EdX.  I found it helpful.
> 
>                 Regards
> 
>                 Sandeep
> 
>                 From:
>                 Sandeep Johri
> 
>                 On 15/01/18 01:01 PM, peter_melse at gto.net
>                 <mailto:peter_melse at gto.net> wrote:
>>                 DevOps talk suggestions:
>>
>>                 configuration management (puppet, chef, ansible, salt,
>>                 etc.)
>>                 automated deployment (satellite, the foreman)
>>                 patch management (aptly, landscape, and the rhel
>>                 equivalents?)
>>
>>
>>                 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                 *Subject:* [kwlug-disc] Linux & Linux admin for newbies
>>                 *Date:* Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:18:10 -0500
>>                 *From:* <jvj at golden.net> <mailto:jvj at golden.net>
>>                 *To:* kwlug <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>                 <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>                 *Reply-To:* KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>                 <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>
>>                 Linux & Linux admin for newbies
>>
>>                 In last week's meeting an attendee was self described
>>                 as a Linux newbie and explained that Linux admin was
>>                 an interest.
>>                 As I identified with the "newbie" aspect I gave the
>>                 attendee a short list of topics to study.
>>                 This list (somewhat modified) follows - and shows that
>>                 I am somewhat dated.
>>                 And I invite the members to copy and and add to this
>>                 list to help other new newbies who might subscribe to
>>                 these discussions.
>>
>>
>>                 *IX == UNIX (history) 
>>                 (with reference to Tim's recap of last week.)
>>
>>                 Command Line Input aka CLI
>>                 Terminal
>>                 Screen
>>                 Shell & BASH Shell 
>>                 BASH scripting
>>                 tar
>>                 ssh
>>                 gnome
>>                 unity
>>                 gnome vs unity
>>                 text editors: vi & vim & [other]
>>
>>                 Linux admin (aka DevOps)
>>                 I have nothing to add here - and am looking for topics.
>>                 (hint: I go back to fsck)
>>
>>                 Regards
>>                 JohnJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                  
>>
>>                  
>>
>>                  
>>
>>                  
>>
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