Warm Greetings To GTALUG,
From a Windows XP "orphan" and Linux newbie
:)
Lately I haven't had much to say on this
GTALUG email forum. No pressing issues needing help right now. Not pushy
enough to waste GTALUG bandwidth with general musings.
However, in response to William Park's
observations about the status of GTALUG, may say that I find good value in
simply "lurking"? Often I am saving a snippet of wisdom copied from a
GTALUG email, into one of the plain-text notes files I keep on various
projects.
Actually William, your offer of a Linux
command line tutorial caught my interest. If only I lived closer to the meeting
venue ...
Except that I'm probably going to be
using mksh rather than bash. But having some basic vi(m) skills could come
in handy. Every time I've had to use vi, it's been the most frustrating
hair-pulling nightmare just trying to get that stupid arcanely-user-interfaced
program to do the simplest darn thing ...
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Earlier, I received a some hugely helpful
advice from GTALUG members, regarding my list of proposed components
for a new desktop PC build. I revised the recipe accordingly. Got delayed with
the PC build project, but am now back working on it. Made more revisions to the
parts list, which is "almost" finalized now.
My beautiful new heavy-duty 24/7 desktop PC
is replacing a very old Dell Windows XP PC. Bye bye Microsoft. Hello Linux. And
I'm counting on GTALUG as my go-to source of advice.
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This new desktop PC will be running debian Linux (+
LXDE) as its primary OS.
I may install Windows (7 / 10) in case of a dire
need for some Windows functionality. E.g. flashing the ASROCK mainboard bios.
But just today (24 July 2017), I learned from D. Hugh Redelmeier's posting,
about the FreeDOS alternative for flashing firmware, so I've tucked that idea
away in a notes file for future reference -- Thanks Hugh
!!
I hope to be building the new PC iwithin the next
month. Real sson now.
No doubt, as I work to install debian
Linux, and configure the disk drive, etc. I will be coming to GTALUG for
advice.
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So, my feedback to GTALUG is that the
e-forum aspect of GTALUG is a very important resource for me (and I expect
for a number of other "lurkers").
In addition, I find GTALUG email forum to
being a source of some very interesting wider tech-ralated musings, by
knowledgeable members. I've even passed some interesting bits (e.g. apps
detecting surveillance of cell phone traffic) on to the OpenMedia
openmedia.org folks (re: concerns about muncipal police forces
misusing RCMP-provided Sidewinder traffic sniffing).
I do regret that I live so far away from the Yonge
St. + Dundas St. area, otherwise I would be attending GTALUG
meetings.
Thanks to GTALUG for being there / here
...
Steve
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P.S. I have an idea, for something GTALUG could
consider doing, to re-energise, raise GTALUG visibility (and maybe raise a
few dollars for GTALUG initiatives). An idea related to my new PC build. Once my
build is done, I will raise this idea.
Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux
command-line -- any interest?
There was no formal discussion with the GTALUG board. I
just got tired
of talking about it and decided to show initiative.
:-)
GTALUG has long ceased to be "users group" and has degenerated to
social
get-together. Symptoms are
- It has
stopped growing.
- No new idea or people are coming
in.
- It's not doing anything, because the current
people are already
expert in what they are
doing, so no need to do anything.
- It's falling behind
the time. There are people who knows
Linux
and never heard about GTALUG. (I
see this at work)
So, what's the cure? I think that structured
tutorials is the best way
to hold on to people. "Linux Command-Line"
is not the only topics.
There are many others, even from this mailing list
alone.
--
William
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:40:47PM -0400, Gary
via talk wrote:
> I will attend but I think it would be great if gtalug
could get some
> visibility on this for the public at large. How might
this be done.
> /gary
>
> On 17-07-22 11:17 PM, William
Park via talk wrote:
> > Subject of "tutorial" comes up every year at
Linux BBQ. This year, at
> > Hacklab, was no different.
OK, I'll bite first.
> >
> > I will give a series of
tutorials on "Linux Command-Line", starting with
>
> - Shell (bash)
>
> - Vi editor (vim)
> > It will be
workshop style. So, you can bring laptop (Windows and
> >
Chromebook), try out examples, and ask questions.
> >
> >
How many are interested?
> > We'll work out the logistics
later.
>
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