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Ted Kosan <tkosan@×××××.com> posted |
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380006.98299.qm@×××××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 29 |
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Jan 2007 21:55:30 -0800: |
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> I would like to explore the possibility of applying a creative commons ( |
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> or similar ) license to the book and then make it available through the |
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> Gentoo website for use by Gentoo newbies and computer newbies in |
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> general. So far, the materials seem to be working well with high school |
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> senior age people and I also have a 13 year old and a 9 year old working |
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> through the book with few problems ( which is surprising :-) |
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> The Gentoo installation part of the book can be found here: |
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> http://tkosan.javadevices.org/distancelearning/etec150/lectures/gentoo_linux_install_phase_1_v1.3.1.pdf |
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> And here is the beginning part of the book, which contains an |
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> explanation of how a computer works: |
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> http://tkosan.javadevices.org/distancelearning/etec150/lectures/computer_systems.v1.0.pdf |
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Wow! I know someone whose kid is just getting into *ix and asked for |
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recommendations. This could be right up their alley as the kid is high |
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school age. Regardless of what Gentoo does with this, I know one person |
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that's getting a link to the class site (the etec150 dir) sent to them. |
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=8^) |
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(FWIW, he already decided to try FreeBSD first, so I don't know if this |
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will interest him or not, but given that it's setup as a distance learning |
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course and its limited previous knowledge target, it well could. FWIW2, I |
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just read thru both pdfs, then looked at the syllabus, quizzes, etc, and |
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not only am impressed, but learned a bit I had forgotten or somehow |
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skipped, going over the general computer basics in the first part myself. |
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=8^) |
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I'm impressed to see this use of Linux in the educational system happening |
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in the US, not just everywhere else, as it sometimes seems from the news. |
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When you are done developing the coursework, I'd love to see pieces on it |
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in LWN and/or sites such as Linuxwatch and linux.com/newsforge. I've got |
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the site bookmarked and may be mailing you offlist, as well. |
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Duncan - No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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