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Line 3: Many of the tools of open source development are primarily used via the command line. Let's get some practice with navigating the computer from the command line. * [[~~Boston~~Open ~~Python~~Source ~~Workshop~~Comes 5to Campus/~~Friday~~UMD/Laptop setup/Windows ~~Python~~command ~~scripts~~line\|Windows]] * [[~~Boston~~Open ~~Python~~Source ~~Workshop~~Comes 5to Campus/~~Friday~~UMD/Laptop setup/OSX ~~Python~~command ~~scripts~~line\|OS X]] * [[~~Boston~~Open ~~Python~~Source ~~Workshop~~Comes 5to Campus/~~Friday~~UMD/Laptop setup/Linux ~~Python~~command ~~scripts~~line\|Linux]] == Goal #2: install git == Git is a popular revision control system that is used by many open source projects. We'll use it during this workshop. * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows git\|Windows]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX git\|OS X]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux git\|Linux]] == Goal #3: install an IRC client == IRC is a real-time chat protocol that open source projects often use to talk about the project and as a medium for users and developers to help each other. * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows IRC\|Windows]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX IRC\|OS X]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux IRC\|Linux]] == Goal #4: practice using SSH == SSH allows you to securely access a shell (like the command line window you used earlier) on a remote machine. * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows SSH\|Windows]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX SSH\|OS X]] * [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux SSH\|Linux]] == Success! == You are done with laptop setup! [[File:Party.png\|125px]] Take a break, stretch, meet some neighbors, and ask the staff if you have any questions about this material. == Bonus material == If you finish laptop setup early: * Find and join an IRC channel for something you are interested in. on Freenode, try #ubuntu (the Linux distribution), #web (web development), #gsoc (Google Summer of Code) You can get a full list of Freenode's channels [http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode here] * [http://code.google.com/soc/ Learn about Google Summer of Code] and [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011 look at last year's accepted mentor projects]. * [http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/ Learn about <tt>screen</tt>]. Then ssh into the remote Linux machine <tt>umd-workshop.openhatch.org</tt> and set up a screen session there.