This week is LIG Newbie week, intended to introduce UIC students to Linux. All talks are presented in the CS Labs (SEL east 2250). This event will cover topics for newbies, and some intermediate topics. Come to learn how to start using Linux, and how to learn how to work toward becoming an effective Linux user at UIC.

Tuesday, 9/7

5:00 Installing Ubuntu presented by Bryanna Denney
5:30 Remote access (SSH) presented by Hef

Wednesday, 9/8

5:00 Using Linux at UIC prestented by Walter Dworak
5:30 Working With Code presented by Tomek

Thursday, 9/9

5:00 Using the Shell presented by eviljoel

LUG has put a lot of time and effort into these presentations, and there are a lot of contributors: people who wrote content, revised content, revised presentation style, practices, participated in test runs, critiqued, and advertised for this event.

If you want to make last minute changes to slides:

apt-get install git-core texlive
mkdir newbie_week
cd newbie_week
git init
git remote add hef http://bogen2.dyndns.org/~hef/newbie_week.git
git remote update
git merge hef/master

The source code for the slides is in the .tex files, look at install_ubuntu.tex for a good example of what you can do.

To build the slides run:
make
evince install_ubuntu.pdf &