Post 767120 by matt@linuxrocks.online
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 (DIR) Post #767107 by semordnilap@linuxrocks.online
       2018-10-25T21:26:37Z
       
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       I have to make a presentation on Linux to a club of undergrads (from different disciplines, but with relative similar technology interests) to show what it is all about and some of the advantages of using terminal tools. I already planned on showing the commodity of having a package manager, grep, file management (touch, mv, cp and tar) and some pipes. Do you guys have any other suggestions on terminal tools that are useful/fun & accessible to a general audience?
       
 (DIR) Post #767108 by matt@linuxrocks.online
       2018-10-25T21:51:27Z
       
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       @semordnilap I would focus more on higher level concepts, such as why there are central repos for distros, what free and open source software is all about, and a brief (1-2 minute) talk that most software you'd want to use on Windows or Mac are either on Linux or there are equivalents.I wouldn't focus on file management via CLI, other than to say that its there (and its fairly simple). I would talk about pipes a lot though, and some cool tricks you can do with it.
       
 (DIR) Post #767120 by matt@linuxrocks.online
       2018-10-25T21:52:03Z
       
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       @semordnilap That said I don't know the full scope of what you want to accomplish.
       
 (DIR) Post #774895 by semordnilap@linuxrocks.online
       2018-10-26T08:07:54Z
       
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       @matt Yes a good part of the presentation will be on that. These students are interested in research and we will discuss how open source should be fundamental to academic research for reproducibility purposes.