[Swansea Hackspace] Linux tutorials

[Emyr Morris]

I would +1 Ubuntu as the Raspberry Pi Raspian isn't too disimilar and as
makers we might end up needing to roll out a Pi setup.

Probably we would need to go back to basics, maybe if we all brought in an
old laptop, installed Linux on it, and then got it up to some level of
usefulness... Maybe covering some of basics like Adding users, groups,
chmod, chown etc... Then onto adding packages etc

Some of the useful stuff like top, df and a thousand other things that says
admins know and the rest of us are ignorant of... Stuff like pipe etc...
The bash based stuff that will be really useful when we progress to mucking
about with A Pi

If the software we would need would be available locally on HD, stick or
cd to save us all downloading it at the same time.

I have a R Pi crib sheet on my google drive

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18AOuK_QNqpDPMuctAHFapvfO53yPAfc9G4IZXiIUkj8/edit?usp=docslist_api

Pretty basic stuff, but if it might be handy. I rarely need to get my hands
dirty with Linux these days and I have forgotten so much of it now. (I've
owned Linux web servers since 1997)

On Monday, 13 April 2015, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good,
> I would like to be able to use UBUNTU .. just dabbling,
>
> but things like getting serial ports to work,
> copying files, MBED especially, delete file does not 'ACTUALLY' work.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ceri
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Iain Menzies-Runciman <
> ming at gwndwn.org.uk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ming at gwndwn.org.uk');>>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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