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2 Avon High School Tech Crew Agenda Old Business –Delete Files New Business –Week 7 Topics: Tech Talks Field Trip Complete VirtualBox/Ubuntu Install Linux Intro

3 Avon High School Tech Crew New Business Tech Talks Field Trip to Hyland Software –February 21 st –Details to follow

4 Avon High School Tech Crew Ubuntu Setup Ubuntu VM Setup –Created a ‘standard’ VM –Easy import into VirtualBox Intro to Linux Customize environment

5 Avon High School Tech Crew Getting Started Brief Intro to Linux –History –Using the command line –Basic commands –Practice exercises Ubuntu Setup and Customization –Change Desktop Environment Install Cinnamon –Add Software and Applets Install Ubuntu Tweak

6 History: Before Linux In 80’s, Microsoft’s DOS was the dominated OS for PC Apple Mac was better, but expensive UNIX was much better, but much, much more expensive. Only for minicomputer for commercial applications People were looking for a UNIX based system, which is cheaper and can run on PC Both DOS, Mac and UNIX were proprietary, i.e., the source code of their kernel is protected No modification is possible without paying high license fees

7 Avon High School Tech Crew Historical Development of Linux Linus Torvalds became interested in a freeware product called Minix Developed by Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Minix was a clone of the commercial UNIX operating system for PCs In Sept 1991, Torvalds, a second year student of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, developed the preliminary kernel of Linux, known as Linux version And the rest is history …

8 Avon High School Tech Crew Linux Distributions Today, there are hundreds of different distributions available Popular Linux distributions include: –Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat/Fedora, Arch, Debian, CentOS, Mint, PCLinuxOS, Mageia List of distributions: –

9 Avon High School Tech Crew What is a ‘Linux Distribution’? A Linux distribution typically includes: –Software Packages –Installer –Re-configure –Update/Patch –Commercial Software –User Guide

10 Avon High School Tech Crew Components of Linux The Linux Kernel –An operating system kernel used by the Linux family Libraries –Pre-written code “pieces” that application programmers use in their programs Utilities –Maintain the file system, editing text files, managing running processes, installing new software packages User Interface

11 Avon High School Tech Crew Terminal & Command Line Why use a terminal or command line? –The terminal is a powerful and invaluable tool that can be used to perform many useful tasks you might not be able to accomplish with a GUI –The command-line interface is sometimes a faster way to accomplish a task. –Learning the command-line interface is the first step towards more advanced troubleshooting, system administration, and software development skills –Gives access to a ‘shell’ One of the most popular is ‘bash’

12 Avon High School Tech Crew Basic Commands Start terminal: –Dash ‣ Applications ‣ Terminal

13 Avon High School Tech Crew Ubuntu Setup Install Cinnamon –Open a ‘terminal’ –Enter the following commands: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cinnamon –Logout

14 Avon High School Tech Crew Ubuntu Setup 1.Click on the ‘Desktop’ icon 2.Choose ‘Cinnamon’ 3.Click ‘OK’ 4.Login

15 Avon High School Tech Crew Add Applet Add ‘My Launcher’ Applet: –Right-click on menu bar –Choose ‘Add applets to the panel’ –Click on ‘Get new applets’

16 Avon High School Tech Crew Add Applet Add ‘My Launcher’ Applet: –Scroll down and choose ‘My Launcher’ –Click on ‘Download’ –Save the file Unzip the file $ unzip IHT1-YHWZ-0K2Z.zip $ ls

17 Avon High School Tech Crew Add Applet Add ‘My Launcher’ Applet: –Copy contents to the applet directory $ cd /home/seighman/.local/share/cinnamon/applets $ cp -R Enable the applet, add it to your panel –Right-click on the menu bar again –Choose ‘ Add applet to the panel’ –Scroll down and click on the box to enable the ‘My Launcher’ applet –It will now appear in your menu panel

18 Avon High School Tech Crew Add Applet