Linux Class at Communiversity

[Jason Clinton]

Leo J Mauler wrote:
> If this is a "please include this in the class" discussion, one thing
> I've always wanted to learn in Linux is how to uninstall software.
> Frequently I run into situations, even with package managers, where some
> little bit of package remains uninstalled, or some config file remains
> behind, and causes problems with new versions of the same software and
> sometimes with other software packages.
>
> Will you cover network file systems at all?  I've never figured out NFS,
> and while I can mount a SMB share from an existing Windows PC on my Linux
> box, I've never figured out how to do the reverse: share a Linux SMB
> share with a Windows PC.  I would suspect that sharing a Linux partition
> with a Windows PC comes up A LOT in office environments!

I'll cover a complete map of 'locations of interest' on a general Linux
file system.

If I can manage to scrounge up enough network cables, we'll set up a
mini 192.168.* network and do NFS to share a singe repository of the
source tarballs even though we won't be using them.