Linux/Unix in the classroom

[Travis Roy]

> I was under the impression that we were discussing its use in 
> an "Intro to Unix" course; I wouldn't expect the installation 
> from scratch of a Linux distro to be a part of that course. I 
> would think that the basic *nix system structure and 
> philosophy, some common shell commands, how to use an editor, 
> basic scripting, and perhaps a compile or two would be more 
> likely to be the topics covered (perhaps Jerry could go into 
> more detail on this 
> aspect) - all of this can be done nicely using Knoppix as the 
> platform.

My intro to Solaris as well as intro to windows (back in the day) both
included installs. The Solaris course talked about setting up partitions
(or slices in Solaris) and setting up a non-root user.