This Eleven-Day series is given here. This is the
prerelease-version of the 'GLT-Ishkool Pathmala' in Bangla. The final
version is planned to be published by FSF-India. Day 00 is a primer for
absolute beginers, Day 01 and 02 make you familiar with a working OS.
Day 03 tries to trace the history of cyber-thought from abacus to
Claude Shannon. Day 04 tells the story of generations: coming of FMS,
Multics, Unics, Unix, Minix, and then GNU-linux, Day 05 starts to tread
into Glinux. Day 06 is the first encounter with GNU-Linux commands and
files. Day 07 and 08 go deeper into GNU-Linux Filesystems and
Partitions and all. Day 09 discusses GNU-Linux Filesystem Hierarchy and
Day 10 is a primer for Bash and Bash-scripts.
(Day 03 appeared in a Bangla little magazine called 'Apar' in its
Bookfair 2004 number in a marginally different version.)
The links of the chapters are given below. To open any of the files
you will need one pdf-reader. On a GNU-Linux platform you have a lot of
them, though 'xpdf' suits best in reading these. Some of the files are pretty
big. Two of them are more than one meg. So, particularly for dial-up users,
it maybe better to right-click the section links and save the files to your HD,
before reading them.
If in MS-Windows, you will need Adobe Acrobat reader
that you can get from
Adobe Acrobat Reader Download Link.
Another apology here: the 'pdf' files were created with propritary softwares, the reasons and pains of that event are actually discussed in the eleventh lesson of the series.
In fact so much of a problem it is, if you want to download the book, we
suggest you to directly to the mirror page, and select any mirror from there.
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