01.00.00 Introduction and Overview

01.01.00 Problems with traditional systems

• 01.01.01 High cost
• 01.01.02 Slow release pattern
• 01.01.03 Tech Support?
• 01.01.04 Lack of source code availability
• 01.01.05 Planned obsolescence of hardware
• 01.01.06 Impossible functionality (ex. TWAIN)
• 01.01.07 Impossible functionality with a budget (gimp, gcc)
• 01.01.08 Monopolistic attitude
• 01.01.09 Crash-prone
• 01.01.10 My experiences (Dr.DJ, slideshow)

01.02.00 Introducing Linux

• 01.02.01 What is Linux? What are we talking about? How do we say it?
• 01.02.02 What is GNU?
• 01.02.03 What is GPL?
• 01.02.04 Who writes this stuff? Where does it come from?
• 01.02.05 Why should we care?
• 01.02.06 What is Red Hat? SuSE? Caldera? A distribution?
• 01.02.07 What are the differences between them

01.03.00 Technical merits and problems of Linux

• 01.03.01 Linux is Network-friendly Most installations presume full-time network and ethernet
• 01.03.02 Linux is Multi-user Security features are often seen as a nuisance
• 01.03.03 Linux inherits thousands of traditional Unix programs Lack of popular MS world commercial applications
• 01.03.04 Old hardware works great with Linux Lack of hardware vendor support, PnP issues
• 01.03.05 Unix is incredibly powerful People have already been conditioned to get by with DOS
• 01.03.06 There's a HUGE on-line group of Unix enthusiasts you can turn to Lack of traditional customer support
• 01.03.07 Gigabytes of documentation freely available Locations of help are sometimes a treasure hunt
• 01.03.08 Options, options, options, infinite customization potential Inconsistent User Interface, a chore to fine tune
• 01.03.09 Many ways to skin the cat Replication of packages etc, sometimes overwhelming options
• 01.03.10 Linux is updated much more frequently that commercial software Staying current is a trick
• 01.03.11 Linux is Open
• 01.03.12 Linux is "Free"
• 01.03.13 Linux is Reliable
• 01.03.14 Linux is Backwards-Compatible
• 01.03.15 Linux is proof against obsolesence.

02.00.00 Installation

02.01.00 Where does one get Linux?

• 02.01.01 How much?
• 02.01.02 Net based
• 02.01.03 Books, library books
• 02.01.04 Commercial distros

02.02.00 Preparing to Install Linux

• 02.02.01 Taking Inventory
• 02.02.02 What hardware gives Linux problems?
• 02.02.03 Why is the latest, greatest gear not so great?
• 02.02.04 Creating the installation floppies

02.03.00 Preparing/Partitioning Your Hard Drive

• 02.03.01 fdisk
• 02.03.02 disk druid
• 02.03.03 Multi OS issues
• 02.03.04 Lilo, system commander

02.04.00 Installing Linux

• 02.04.01 The Installation Program's Interface
• 02.04.02 Hardware selection
• 02.04.03 Package selection
• 02.04.04 Getting past network questions

02.05.00 Troubleshooting

02.06.00 Alternate methods of installation

• 02.06.01 Net
• 02.06.02 HD

03.00.00 Learning Linux Basics

03.01.00 Linux at first glance (GUI)

• 03.01.01 What's X Windows?
• 03.01.02 What's Gnome? What's KDE?
• 03.01.03 What's a Window manager?
• 03.01.04 What's a theme?

03.02.00 CLI = Command Line Interface

• 03.02.01 Virtual consoles
• 03.02.02 What's svgalib?
• 03.02.03 X Terminal
• 03.02.04 Why is this important?
• 03.02.05 Demonstrate the same thing on GUI and CLI (timetool?)

03.03.00 The power of the shell and filesystem

• 03.03.01 What's bash?
• 03.03.02 Command history
• 03.03.03 Command completion
• 03.03.04 Alias
• 03.03.05 Filesystem features
• 03.03.06 bash programming

03.04.00 HELP!!

• 03.04.01 LDP
• 03.04.02 Searchlinux
• 03.04.03 irc
• 03.04.04 linux.org
• 03.04.05 slashdot.org
• 03.04.06 freshmeat.net
• 03.04.07 Getting Help with the man Command
• 03.04.08 How to read man pages and learn commands

03.05.00 The Unix Universe - Power Commands

• 03.05.01 pwd
• 03.05.02 cd
• 03.05.03 ls
• 03.05.04 cat
• 03.05.05 more, less
• 03.05.06 find dir -iname "*name*"

03.06.00 Software package issues

• 03.06.01 rpm
• 03.06.02 tar
• 03.06.03 gzip
• 03.06.04 bzip

03.07.00 The editor

• 03.07.01 Why is an editor to the Unix master like the Katana to the Ninja?
• 03.07.02 pico
• 03.07.03 joe
• 03.07.04 vi
• 03.07.05 emacs
• 03.07.06 some goofy KDE or Gnome thing
• 03.07.07 What are rc and configuration files?

04.00.00 Useful things one can do with Linux (hint: the Internet IS Unix!)

04.01.00 Open source stuff (the good guys)

• 04.01.01 web browsing (Netscape, Lynx, up and coming stuff)
• 04.01.02 web serving
• 04.01.03 email (pine, mutt, elm)
• 04.01.04 irc
• 04.01.05 usenet
• 04.01.06 ftp
• 04.01.07 privacy, encryption, PGP, GPG
• 04.01.08 Graphics work, esp web graphics, the Gimp, Image Magick
• 04.01.09 mp3, music stuff
• 04.01.10 video playback, xanim
• 04.01.11 server - web, ftp, quake, print, internet, fax, archive, whatever
• 04.01.12 Programming!!! gcc, bash, Perl, Python, Tk/Tcl, Gnome, gdb
• 04.01.13 Emulators - which leads of course to GAMES!!

04.02.00 Commercial Apps for Linux (the not so bad guys)

• 04.02.01 Corel's Word Perfect - look for more from Corel
• 04.02.02 Sun's Star Office Suite - look for improvements
• 04.02.03 Id's Quake III Arena - Carmack's a Linux fan.
• 04.02.04 Applixware
• 04.02.05 Opera - There's a sigh of relief!

05.00.00 Administering Your System

05.01.00 Basic System Administration

• 05.01.01 How does the "user" concept work?
• 05.01.02 What's the big deal with "root"?
• 05.01.03 Running as the Root Operator with the su Command
• 05.01.04 Getting Disk Space Information, df, du
• 05.01.05 Getting System Load Information with the top and xload

05.02.00 Handling Files

• 05.02.01 How Linux Is Organized
• 05.02.02 Using the mount Command to Access Other
• 05.02.03 Filesystems
• 05.02.04 Understanding the Filesystem Table, /etc/fstab
• 05.02.05 Formatting a Floppy
• 05.02.06 The mtools Package
• 05.02.07 Managing File Ownership and Permissions
• 05.02.08 Changing File Permissions with the chmod Command
• 05.02.09 Changing File Ownership with the chown Command
• 05.02.10 Changing Groups and Ownerships with the chgrp Command

05.03.00 Red Hat Tools

• 05.03.01 Configuring Your System with the Control-Panel
• 05.03.02 Time tool
• 05.03.03 Print tool, print facilities

05.04.00 Archiving

• 05.04.01 Concepts
• 05.04.02 Ideas
• 05.04.03 Software

05.05.00 Scheduling

• 05.05.01 Using the cron Daemon
• 05.05.02 Managing User Scheduling with the at Command

06.00.00 Very Advanced topics

06.01.00 Programming

06.02.00 Systems development

06.03.00 Networking

06.04.00 Security