Contents: [slideshow]

• Basic Linux Stuff
• User Interfaces
• The K Desktop Environment, KDE
• GNOME
• Less Resource-Hungry Interfaces

The Command Line

• The Commandline: BASH
• What is it?
• Commandline: why???
• Some BASH One-Liners
• Bash Tutorial Material
• Commandline Completion
• The BASH History

Filing System, File and Directory Handling

• File Handling
• Top-Level Directories
• Users, Groups and File Permissions
• Nautilus, Dolphin and Konqueror
• File Permissions at the Commandline
• Directory Handling at the Commandline
• Copying, Moving and Removing Files
• Editors
• Quick and Dirty File Content

Processes

• Processes
• Running Programmes
• Stdout, Stdin and Stderr
• Backgrounding Jobs

BASH: More and Scripts

• More on BASH
• Commandline Power and Flexibility
• Example BASH Scripts

Installation

• Installation
• From where?
• Distributions
• Dual-booting and Virtualisation
• Cygwin and Co-Linux

More

• More at Manchester and Elsewhere
• Man Pages
• On-line BASH Tutorials
• On-line Linux Help and Tutorials
• On-line References

Practical Session

• Practical Session
• Practical: File Handling

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About this document

Basic Linux Stuff

Practical Session