Comments on: My Vietnamese Students used PC-BSD

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:08:38 +0000

This school year things have changed. No BSD/Linux on the desktops. Instead many of the students will buy netbooks running Linux. They then will be able to do their course work on their netbooks. It should be interesting.

By: Will Godfrey

Will Godfrey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:50:35 +0000

very nice to see you are developing this, and widening these students’ experience. The more they see the better their own choices will be.

By: ml2mst

ml2mst — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:27:52 +0000

Ehrm. While adding a new user, the admin has the choice to pick the preferred shell. And guess what: Bash is one of them

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:56:45 +0000

@David: Thanks, a lot for the tip.

By: David O'Leary

David O'Leary — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:37:58 +0000

I run BSD on a few of my machines.
Two changes that I like to make to my .cshrc file are;

setenv CLICOLOR true
(ls from the console lists directory names in blue, executables in red, symbolic links in purple, etc)

set prompt = “[%B%n%b@%m %c3]%% ”
This gives you a prompt of [USERNAME@HOSTNAME (followed by the current working directory)] %
Substitute the ending double % with a single $ if you so desire.

Your students will find command line work more enjoyable after making those changes.

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:49:24 +0000

@Stephen: The laptops keep rotating around the classroom and sometimes in and out of the classroom as well. We are moving to a new building so everything should be resolved.

Thanks for the advice, I will remember it in the new building.