[Inschool] Best settings for LINUX on students oldies

[Ralph M. Deal]

In response to my Jana. 31 query for advice on setting up a set of
ancient computers for student
use at home, Bill wrote:

> 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>)."

May do that but the initial handout I've prepared refers to the gui
only.
 
> Make certain apropos is installed 

Have done so.

> 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.

I'm working on that now.
 
> 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.

I'll have some real geeks with whom I'll work separately.   I'll have to
see how
it goes.
 
> Just my 2 cents worth. I'm pretty impressed that you are making this happen.
> WTG, fella!

I'm lucky that I came along at the right time, saw the stack and asked
what OS they
were going to use...

	Best,  Ralph