[Swansea Hackspace] Linux tutorials

[Tim Clark]

On 12/04/2015 21:43, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 13:49 +0100, djdavies83 wrote:
>> Would it be possible to schedule some Linux tutorials?
> sure
Agreed, we most defiantly have all the required knowledge
> Although i will have to have a hard think about whats makes a good
> introduction, its been such a long time since i have used anything but
> linux.
I had the same thought, its such a wide topic and is really quite stable 
these days its quite hard to work out what to include in a Linux tutorial.

Can you give us any idea what kind of things you would like to know how 
to do?
>> I would like to better understand the Linux version used at the
>> hackspace, I'm also tempted to put Linux on an old system I have in
>> the attic seen as Linux can be more reliable than windows.
> The CNC Workstation is running Fedora https://getfedora.org/
>
> Maybe I can do a workshop of installing Fedora Live on a USB stick, and
> running through the basic tools and apps.
>   
> I'm sure someone else will volunteer to do similar for Ubuntu or some
> other distribution.
I recommend Ubuntu over Fedora generally, especially for beginners and 
hobbyists primarily as it is more popular as a desktop distribution so 
finding help and tools elsewhere on the internet is easier, its also 
what the hackspace laptops run.
People should be wary that distribution selection does tend to be a bit 
of a religious subject, and which one you select these days is not so 
important as they are all fairly stable with few notable exceptions.
Do any of the people who wish to learn have a preference or questions 
about distribution selection?

Tim