I would have to agree, people interested in learning linux know basicly
how to function in a gui. If your only doing one class per month I would
start them on the shell like most unix classes and show them around the
filesystem, explain the boot sequence, then once thats covered at least
a little bit then have a look at xwindows, its configuration, and
various window managers and their particulars.

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 19:21, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> On Friday 30 August 2002 05:23 pm, you wrote:
> > I think there are two directions we could go with the curriculum:
> > 1) General Linux workstation knowledge for people migrating from Windows
> > 2) Basic Linux system administration (would be more along the lines of a
> > certification-track class)
> >
> > Which direction we take would depend on what kind of audience is
> > interested in the classes. What do you think?
> 
> Speaking for myself I'd go for basic admin. I think I can figure out how to 
> point and click in KDE. <g>
> 
> Isn't one class a month a very slow pace?
> 
> Dennis Kibbe
> 
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