Tutorials
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The GLUG organises weekly/bi-weekly small tutorials, presented by volunteers and can be on any topic of interest to the Linux desktop user. Tutorials in the past have covered a diverse range of topics, from advanced usage of SSH to installing GNU/Linux on an Xbox.
Members are welcome to suggest other tutorials.
Tutorials for 2007/08
Term 2
Week 3: BenjiWeber on YaST PDF
Week 4 FredEmmott on 64bit portability Slides
Week 5: RichardWarburton on Benchmarking. Slides src
Week 6: TimRetout on GNU autotools.
Week 7: ChrisLamb on Shell Programming PDF TEX (repo)
Term 1
Week 2: BenjiWeber on the openSUSE Build Service PDF
Week 3: SadiqJaffer on C++
Week 4: RichardWarburton on Java Reflection PDF
- Week 5: Lightning Talks
DanielWatkins on Beamer PDF, TEX, Handout PDF, Handout TEX
TimMonks on Vim
ChrisLamb on Git PDF TEX (repo)
Week 6: ChrisLamb on Building Debian Packages PDF TEX (repo)
Week 7: TimRetout on
Securing SSH PDF, source tarball
followed by a lightning talk on ideas for the UWCS website PDF, TeX
Week 8: QuentinWright on Voice Over IP.
Week 9: TimRetout on firewalls
- Week 10:
Tutorials for 2006/07
Term 1
Week 3: TimRetout on SVN
Week 5: DanielWatkins on Beryl/Compiz/XGL PDF, TEX
Week 6: DanielWatkins on Beamer (mini-tutorial) PDF, TEX, Handout PDF, Handout TEX
Week 7: JonatanRing on Fortran
Week 9: EuanMacGregor on LaTeX PDF, Source + extras, Just the main file
Term 2
Week 2: PeterEllis - Managing a group development project
Week 4: PeterEllis - Python
Week 6: TimRetout - Advanced Perl
Week 8: RichardWarburton - The Java Reflection API
Week 8: ChrisLamb (lightning talk) - Status of Java in GNU/Linux distributions PDF, TEX
Week 10: SadiqJaffer - C++ for Java programmers PDF, TEX, Examples
Tutorials for 2004/05
Term 2
- Week 3: Installing Linux on an Xbox
Week 4: userspace filesystems
Week 5: acpi and laptop power management
- Week 6: PPTP and the ITS VPN
- Week 7: Home 802.11 Security with IPSec
- Week 8: Linux Debugging Tools
- Week 9: The GNU Privacy Guard
- Week 10: Revision Control Systems
Term 3
- Week 2: Gentoo for Ricers
Week 3: gaming in linux
- Week 9: Advanced SSH
Tutorials for 2003/04
Term 1
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It would be appreciated if those who have given tutorials could post their notes on this wiki and link them below, for reference, posterity, and perhaps to help provide material for future events.
There is a Beamer template available to make the creation of a presentation easier.