Linux in the Classroom

Table of contents

Linux in the Classroom

Overview

Part I: Motivation

What Can You Do With Classroom Linux?

What Can Your Students Do With Classroom Linux?

Why Linux?

Why Not Linux?

Linux and GNU and Stuff

Where Do I Get Linux?

But Who Owns All This Stuff?

Who Will Help Me?

Linux Is UNIX

UNIX/NT/Win9x/MacOS

UNIX/NT/Win9x/MacOS (cont.)

What OS Should You Use?

Part II: Action

The X Windowing System

X ``Window Managers''

Xterm and ``shells''

EMACS

Linux ``Office'' Packages

Network Tools

UNIX Login Security

E-mail and Usenet News

Web Server

Educational Web Servers

PERL

Java

Linux Java Tools

UNIX and C

Linux and ``Traditional Languages''

Conclusions

Linux Belongs In Classrooms

Author: Bart Massey

E-mail: bart@cs.pdx.edu

Homepage: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~bart

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