Linux install-fest

[sakarp]

Rohit and Gaurav,

Have you guys made progress on the install-fest questions.... what distro are we going to use? What mini-projects are we going to complete in to get our linux skills up. I say you should plan for a 4 hour session, and keep it focused on solving problems that will increase skill. Also please make it completely beginner focused.

As for a date, lets say after dasai, so Saturday November 3rd. Does that sound ok?

Anyone else with good linux skills that wants to hook up with Rohit/gaurav and help the rest of us, please say something now.

-Sakar

[Gaurav Ghimire]

Hi Sakar dai,

To Start with I'd say lets go with ubuntu, for its readily available for everyone and has a bigger community base (focusing on the GUI) so people would have an ease if ever they want to do something on their own too.

As for the mini-projects, I think learning to create some simple bash scripts, that does I/O and file/string manipulation. Introduction to linux's shell IDE (vi OR emacs :) Rhoit ji, it'd be great to get some start/insights in emacs too. And then to use with our Pi, we'd create simple web and email services. These would be plain simple, and If we install ubuntu, we can probably do a audio streaming server. We'd hookup a USB drive with mp3s to the PI, and access the streaming service running in PI over the network.

So,

1 hr for Install Fest (every one would install linux desktops in their laptops VM )
1 hr for bash introduction and scripting.
1 hr for web/email services.
1 hr for streaming service OR these 2 hours for the services that we'd be running on Pi.

Requirements:

i) We'd need USB disks, 8-10 of them to have Ubuntu installed on the Laptops. ISOs can be used for the VMs. I can get the latest ISO for ubuntu, if we don't have them. Rhoit ji, have you tried installing ubuntu on the Pi, please suggest a distro that works, so I can test the services and a few generic things in a VM here.
ii) WLAN .

Suggestions ??

Regards,
Gaurav

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