[Swansea Hackspace] Linux tutorials

[Iain Menzies-Runciman]

If it is of any use - I teach courses in Embedded Linux, but also have a simple course I wrote for my engineers about some of the basics on Linux (users, filesystems, etc)

Regards,
Ming

> On 13 Apr 2015, at 11:04, Tim Clark <eclipse at sucs.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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