Sasi-draftproposal-of-first-course

Course 1: Introduction to Free Software =

1. Free Software History, Philosophy, Licences and Business models
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1.a. The History of Free Software:

1.b. The philosophy of Free Software:

1.c. Free Software Licences: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

1.d. Free Software Business: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

1.e. Implications of the philosophy of Free Software

2. Free Operating Systems
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Introduction to:
2.a. GNU/Linux
2.b. Free BSD
2.c. GNU Hurd
3.d. Open Solaris
3.e. BeOS

3. Introduction to GNU/Linux
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3.a. The file system
3.b. File permissions, security
3.c. The command line, basic commands
3.d. The Graphical interface
3.e. Basic applications:

1. Text editor - gedit, kwrite, kate

2. Browser - Iceweasel/Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany

3. Email client - Thunderbird, Kmail

4. PIM - Evolution, Kontact

5. Office suite - OpenOffice.org, KOffice

6. Instant messenger - Pidgin, Empathy, Kopete

4. Programming in GNU/Linux
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Introduction to:
4.a. Perl
4.b. Python
4.c. C, C++
4.d. php, Ruby
4.e. Glade, QTDesigner
4.f. gcc, GNU Make
4.g. Shell scripting

5. Databases
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Introduction to:
5.a. MySQL
5.b. PostgreSQL
5.c. Sqlite

6. Server Configuration and Administration
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6.a. Configuring a server
6.b. Security issues
6.c. Monitoring
6.d. Troubleshooting
6.e. Tackling intrusions

7. GNU/Linux Distributions and their Features
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7.a. Different kinds of packaging

1. Slackware -.tar.gz 2. Red Hat - .rpm 3. Debian - .deb 4. Gentoo

7.b. Installation and updating of packages
7.c. Differences in configuration