[Inschool] Best settings for LINUX on students oldies

[Bill]

On Thursday 31 January 2002 17:24, you wrote:

> 5. I plan on running a Saturday workshop for the students/parents who
> put
> out the $25 necessary for a working system.  Should I try to teach
> them command line UNIX methods?
>
> Looking forward to lots of suggestions,   Ralph
> _______________________________________________

Dunno about the other stuff ... but why not show them GUI first and then 
command line equivalents afterwards? "Here's how you do this (click, click, 
click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click) 
and here's the faster way (type, type <enter>)."

Make certain apropos is installed and print out one of the many Linux / DOS 
command equivalency lists from the web. Also ... got room for CUPS? You can 
be lead-pipe certain these new users will be adding a printer almost 
immediately. 

They've got slower machines, make sure they know the faster way to do things 
even though they are likely to be more comfortable (at first) clicking their 
way to nirvana.

Just my 2 cents worth. I'm pretty impressed that you are making this happen. 
WTG, fella!

Let Schoolforge know how it all turns out, okay?

Bill