[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jeremy C. Reed   wrote:
>> So if you had 30 minutes to give this presentation: What concepts,
>> fundamentals, a little history, screenshots, software examples, tips,
>> tricks, anecdotes, and trivia would you share?
>
> <snip>
>
> This is a very difficult task - really, there's too much ground to
> cover, IMO, if you assume no particular technical sophistication, as
> in the example of your wife.

Have them read
Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
http://www.thomasscoville.com/PCarticle.html

GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

Then show them the coreutils manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html

Give them a Linux terminal and some text from gutenberg, and
ask some random questions like "how many lines are in x book"
They will either get it or need The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.

Most of the rest of "knowing Unix" (RAID, runlevels, etc.) is
either generic tech knowledge or fragmented across versions.