Could someone help Prof Gangavane? Prof, I wish the term used would be GNU/Linux (rather than just the kernel's lable of 'Linux', which lacks the strong emphasis on ethics and freedom. FN

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, vibhavari vasant pandit wrote:

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Respected Sir/Madam Sub :- Demanding suggestion about summer school. We are going to conduct Summer School at panhale (Lanja) Ratnagiri. This summer School is held during the month of May. The Summer School will be a 1-Month condensed introduction of a Vocational Course that is meant to prepare the student to be a Productive Self Reliant Knowledgeable Computer Craftsman who has leaned the Art of Working with Free Software for Productive use in the Society, covering all important Areas of human life. These students would have tasted the Freedom and Honesty and Continuous Learning that is involved in working with Free software, and would have imbibed the work culture of independent and autonomous self-learning made possible by the free access to the wealth of software and documentation available on the internet. It also engenders in them the spirit of freely giving back to the society in kind. Syllabus of course is enclosed with this letter. Kindly send your suggestions on this id vgangavane@rediffmail.com or contacat on this telephone no.(02351) 230749 & (02351) 230824.

One Month Course Contents 1. Computer Fundamentals - Computing with a Desktop PC 2. What is Free Software, Open Source , Linux ? 3. System features - Design and Philosophy of Linux. 4. Text processing and word processing. 5. Programming languages and utilities. 6. Graphical Desktop - X Window System. 7. Introduction to Networking and Communications. 8. World Wide Web. 9. Differences between Linux and other operating systems. 10. Hardware requirements. 11. Obtaining and Installing Linux 12. Generic installation - Partitioning. 13. Hardware Compatibility Issues 14. Features of Installed Linux System 15. Console commands, Indirection and Piping 16. Desktop Programs 17. Downloading, Copying and Installing Programs 18. Linux Distributions - Red Hat Linux. 19. The RPM package management system. 20. Problems with installation 21. Understanding Login accounts. 22. Shells and Executing programs. 23. Home directory and Working in Linux 24. The Linux File System 25. The root user and Permissions 26. Jobs and processes. 27. Background processes and Daemons. 28. Text documents Using the vi editor. 29. HTML documents with vi editor. 30. TeX dcuments with vi editor. 31. Shell environment and scripts. 32. Creating,Archiving and compressing files. 33. Upgrading and installing new software. 34. Application Binaries and System files. 35. Text processing using GUI Applications 36. Indian Language Fonts and Documents. 37. Images and Image Editing 38. Sound and Text to Speech 39. Linux Desktop Multimedia 40. Devices and Mounts in Linux 41. Serial, Parallel and USB devices 42. Printing, Scanning and Camera 43. Networking and Host names 44. Configuring TCP/IP on the system. 45. Dial-up Modems, PPP and Internet. 46. Linux Console and gui programs. 47. Tricks and Shortcuts. 48. The linux culture. Yours Faithfully Vasantrao Gangavane