On Monday 25th February I gave an introductory talk on Linux for the TiCREG group here at The Open University. As promised in that presentation and for those of you who could not make it here is the presentation in both OpenOffice and MS PowerPoint formats with a list of references and further reading.

Download Presentation in OpenOffice/ODP Format

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The seven PNG files attached are the screenshots of the OLPC XO-1 emulator used.

References and further reading:

1. Intro slide / Scope of presentation

AACS-SSIT (sorry link will work only for OU staff):
http://intranet.open.ac.uk/aacs/usg/ssit/

2. What is Linux?

Linux Online: What Is Linux?
http://www.linux.org/info/index.html
Wikipedia: Linux page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Wikipedia: Linux Kernel page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
Linux User Groups:
http://lug.org.uk/
Cost of developing Linux OS from scratch has been estimated at $7 billion:
http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/05/giving-away-software-for-free-costs-mor...

3. What can it do for you?

What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can't do with Windows or on a Mac?
http://matthewhelmke.net/index.php/2008/02/02/32-what-is-the-coolest-thi...
Xubuntu Linux:
http://www.xubuntu.org/
Ubuntu packages:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/
SELinux:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
LAMP stack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29

4. Where might you find Linux?

Asus EEE PC:
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/
Linksys Router
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7322
OLPC:
http://www.laptop.org
Chumby:
http://www.chumby.com/
Open Moko:
http://www.openmoko.com/
Google Android:
http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html
Other mobiles:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9423084269.html
IPodLinux:
http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
Nokia N800:
http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n800
http://maemo.org/
TiVO:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lobtivo/
Desktops/laptops, e.g from Dell
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/cl...
Super computers:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/osfam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_%28supercomputer%29
Hauppauge MediaMVP:
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lobmediamvp.html?S_TAC...
£99 laptop:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/...
http://www.elonexone.co.uk/

5. History

Background to Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://www.linux.org/info/index.html
http://www.linux.org/info/linus.html
http://www.bellevuelinux.org/linus.html
GNU Manifesto:
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
OU Course on open source:
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01TT381

6. Some previous issues....

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies
http://www.groklaw.net/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033...

Lock out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/07/fema_web_pc_only/
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/see_an_ie_only_.html
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21236595408
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-b...

Hardware support:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux

For new users:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

7. Linux Today

French police/Parliament:
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.3/france-gendarmerie-oss
City of Munich:
http://www.news.com/Debian-wins-Munich-Linux-deal/2100-7344_3-5689003.ht...
Amazon:
http://builder-news.com.com/2100-1001-275155.html
Google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
Preinstalled:
Asus EEE PC:
http://eeepc.asus.com
OLPC:
http://laptop.org/
£99 laptop:
http://www.elonexone.co.uk/
Dell:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/cl...
Better support for Linux users:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/20/1837204&from=rss
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Sho...

8. Edubuntu

Edubuntu:
http://edubuntu.org/
Ubuntu Moodle package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/moodle
Install OpenLearn on Kubuntu (also works on Edubuntu):
http://www.greenhughes.com/content/learn-go-openlearn-kubuntu-and-moodle

9. Case study: OLPC/$100 laptop

OLPC Main site:
http://www.laptop.org
OLPC Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clunky_laptop
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_on_free/open_source_software
OLPC XO-1 Development:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_components
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy
Twitter Channel for OLPC:
http://twitter.com/olpc
Using OLPC XO-1 image on (K)ubuntu:
http://www.greenhughes.com/content/emulating-olpc-xo1-kubuntu

10. Case study: SecondLife

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0ZDOLM2...
http://www.debian.org/

11. Linux on the desktop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME

12 Where to from here?

Kubuntu:
http://www.kubuntu.org
Free Kubuntu CDs:
https://shipit.kubuntu.org/
Ubuntu Forums:
http://forums.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
Switching to Ubuntu (also explains dual-booting - having Windows and Linux on the same machine):
http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/switching/