NYC LOCAL: Eight Week Introductory Class in Unix, BSD, and GNU/Linux at the Three Jewels Internet Cafe
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Date: 05/31/04
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Date: 31 May 2004 00:52:15 -0400
<blockquote
what="official announcement"
start-date="7:00 pm Tuesday 8 June 2004"
request="verbatim redistribution is encouraged, particularly to ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS">
Unix and its free descendants BSD and GNU/Linux power most of the internet
services that people take for granted today. An increasing number of new
users are coming to the Unix family of computer operating systems for the
stability, security, and rich features they offer.
This class will introduce users to the power of the Unix family of
operating systems and will cover both the history and philosophy of these
powerful systems.
This course presents the features of UNIX that are most useful to new
users, including logging in and out, file administration, command
processing, manipulating text, and using mail, and leads up to how to
control programs in UNIX. This course is for anyone who is new to UNIX or
who wants to expand what they already know about UNIX. It should be
especially useful to those that have been learning Unix or GNU/Linux on
their own, and users of Mac OSX. Macintosh OSX users will be able to get
at and use the hidden power and features of the BSD based Mac OSX after
completing this course. Webmasters that must maintain web sites on Unix,
BSD, or GNU/Linux servers will find that this course will save them time and
trouble in maintaining their web sites.
The course is 8 sessions of 2 hours each. Students will have access
to accounts on lab systems for the class, but those with Unix/BSD/Linux
laptops are encouraged to bring them to class. Each student will
receive a CDROM of software to allow them to apply what they learn in
class on their own computer.
Brett Wynkoop, who has administered serious Unix systems for twenty years,
will teach this class.
The course fee is $200 payable before the start of the first class.
Classes will be on Tuesdays at 7:00PM starting 8 June 2004.
The Three Jewels Internet Cafe is a free internet cafe and Buddhist
meditation space located at 211 East 5th Street New York, NY 10003.
The phone number is 212-475-6650.
PS. Often the word "Linux" is used to refer to systems more correctly
called "GNU/Linux". The most popular OSes that use the Linux kernel, such
as Red Hat, Debian, Linspire, Knoppix, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. are
actually GNU/Linux systems.
http://www.fsf.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
PPS. The three free BSD OSes use their own kernels and have their own sets
of utilities, though often GNU stuff is used.
http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org
PPPS. Mac OSX really is a Unix, indeed it is a FreeBSD, built atop an
unusual kernel, and with extra proprietary Apple stuff on top.
http://www.apple.com/macosx
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix
</blockquote>
Distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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