BOSS-Linux/C2/BOSS-Linux-Desktop/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
|---|---|
| 00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on BOSS Desktop. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, we will get familiar with the BOSS Desktop environment. |
| 00:12 | Here, I am using BOSS Linux 3.4.2 with wide Indian language support & packages. |
| 00:21 | Let me minimize the slide. |
| 00:24 | What you are seeing here, is the BOSS Desktop. |
| 00:28 | You can see the main menu on the top left hand side corner. |
| 00:33 | To open this menu, press Alt+F1 keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
| 00:42 | Alternately, click on Applications menu. |
| 00:46 | The 'Applications menu' contains all the installed applications in a categorized manner. |
| 00:54 | In this Applications menu, let us get familiar with some important applications. |
| 01:01 | So, let's go to Applications, Accessories, Calculator. |
| 01:08 | Calculator helps perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations. |
| 01:16 | Let's open the calculator by clicking on it. |
| 01:20 | Let us try some simple calculations. |
| 01:23 | Type 5*(into)8 and press '='(equals to) sign. |
| 01:29 | Instead of pressing '='(equals to) sign, you can also press the Enter key. |
| 01:35 | Now, exit this calculator by pressing the close button. |
| 01:40 | Now, let's look at another application. |
| 01:43 | For that, go back to Applications, then go to Accessories. |
| 01:49 | In Accessories, let's open gedit Text Editor by clicking on it. |
| 01:56 | So, what you see right now on screen is the gedit Text Editor. |
| 02:02 | Let me type some text here and save it. |
| 02:06 | Type: Hello World. |
| 02:11 | To save the file, I can press Crtl+S keys or go to File and then click on Save. |
| 02:20 | So, let me go to File and then click on Save. |
| 02:26 | The Save As dialog box opens up. |
| 02:29 | It prompts for filename and location in which the file has to be saved. |
| 02:36 | So, let me type the name as hello.txt and for location, I will select the Desktop. |
| 02:47 | Click on Save button. |
| 02:49 | Let's close this gedit window now and check whether our file is saved on the Desktop or not. |
| 02:58 | Now come to the Desktop and you can see the file "hello.txt" here. |
| 03:05 | So, our text file has got saved successfully. |
| 03:10 | Let me open this file by double-clicking on it. |
| 03:14 | Here is our text, "Hello World". |
| 03:18 | We can type in multiple local languages too, in the 'gedit Text Editor'. |
| 03:24 | Let us see how to do so. |
| 03:27 | In gedit Text Editor, press CTRL + SPACE BAR. |
| 03:33 | You can see a small box at the bottom right hand side. |
| 03:39 | Click on it. |
| 03:41 | Select 'Hindi'. |
| 03:43 | Inscript. |
| 03:45 | I will type hello world. |
| 03:49 | You can see the text has changed to Hindi Inscript. |
| 03:53 | Now I will select Hindi, then I will select Phonetic. |
| 03:59 | I will type welcome using phonetics. |
| 04:03 | And you can see the word welcome typed in Hindi. |
| 04:08 | Now, click on Save to save the changes. |
| 04:11 | Let's close this text editor and let's see another important application from Accessories i.e Terminal. |
| 04:20 | So, let's move back to Applications, Accessories and then Terminal. |
| 04:27 | Terminal is called command line because you can command the computer from here.In fact, it is more powerful than the GUI. |
| 04:40 | Now let's type a simple command to get a feel of Terminal. |
| 04:45 | So, let's type "ls" and press Enter. |
| 04:50 | You can see it lists all the files and folders in the current working directory. |
| 04:57 | Here it is displaying files and folders from the Home folder. |
| 05:02 | We will see later in this tutorial what the Home folder is. |
| 05:07 | Terminal commands are explained well in the subsequent Linux spoken tutorials in this series. |
| 05:15 | Let us close the Terminal now. |
| 05:18 | Now let's move on to another application i.e Iceweasel Web Browser. |
| 05:25 | This is the default web-browser on the BOSS Operating System. |
| 05:30 | Click on Applications >> Internet >> Iceweasel Web Browser. |
| 05:36 | Iceweasel is the re-branded version of Firefox. |
| 05:41 | Using this browser, you can access your emails or search for some information on the net. |
| 05:49 | Let's go to the google-site. |
| 05:51 | The short-cut key to go to the address bar is F6. |
| 05:56 | Or you can click here, on the address bar. |
| 06:00 | I will type www.google.co.in. |
| 06:07 | As I type, Iceweasel may suggest a few possibilities. |
| 06:11 | You may choose one of these... |
| 06:14 | ... or continue to type the complete address and press Enter. |
| 06:19 | We are now in the google search page. Let us type spoken tutorial in the search bar. |
| 06:27 | The spoken tutorial website is listed as the first option. Let's click on it. |
| 06:34 | This will open the spoken tutorial Home page. |
| 06:38 | Let's close this and move on. |
| 06:42 | Now, let's click on Applications and then on Office. |
| 06:48 | In this Office menu, we have LibreOffice options like Writer, Calc and Impress. |
| 06:57 | These are the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation components of LibreOffice Suite. |
| 07:04 | The Spoken Tutorial website has spoken tutorials on these topics. We suggest that you explore them. |
| 07:12 | Next, under Applications, let's explore Sound &Video menu. |
| 07:19 | This option lists the various player options available in BOSS OS. |
| 07:27 | You can use any of these options to play your video or audio files. |
| 07:33 | Now, let's see some other important things. Let's go to Places menu this time. |
| 07:41 | The first option here is the 'Home' folder. |
| 07:45 | Let's open it. |
| 07:47 | Every user has a unique Home folder in BOSS OS. |
| 07:52 | We can say that the Home folder is our house where we can store our files and folders. |
| 08:00 | Unless we permit, others cannot see them. |
| 08:04 | More information on file permissions is available in the 'Linux spoken tutorials', available on the spoken tutorial website. |
| 08:14 | In our Home folder, we can see other folders such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music etc. |
| 08:25 | In Linux, everything is a file. |
| 08:29 | Let's open the Desktop folder by double-clicking on it. |
| 08:35 | Hey, we can see that the same hello.txt file what we saved from gedit text editor is here. |
| 08:44 | So, this folder and the Desktop are the same. |
| 08:49 | Let me close this folder now. |
| 08:52 | Let's learn to change the Desktop theme now. |
| 08:55 | Go to the right hand side corner and click on the username displayed there. |
| 09:02 | In my case, the username is spoken. So, I will click on spoken. |
| 09:09 | Now, click on System Settings option. |
| 09:13 | The System Settings dialog box opens up. |
| 09:16 | Click on Background icon. |
| 09:19 | Choose any background from the list displayed. |
| 09:23 | It will appear as your new background. |
| 09:27 | Close this dialog box. |
| 09:29 | Now, we will come to the System Tools option available under 'Applications' menu. |
| 09:36 | This menu has many important options which helps you to manage your desktop and the various applications. |
| 09:44 | Click on System tools >> Administration and Synaptic Package Manager. |
| 09:51 | It will immediately prompt you for the 'admin password' for authentication. |
| 09:57 | Type in your 'admin' password and click on Authenticate button. |
| 10:02 | Details on how to use Synaptic Package Manager is available in a separate tutorial in this series. |
| 10:10 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
| 10:14 | Let us summarize.In this tutorial, we learnt about: |
| 10:18 | the BOSS Desktop, the main menu, |
| 10:21 | and many important features of BOSS Linux OS. |
| 10:25 | Watch the video available at the following link. |
| 10:28 | It summarizes the spoken tutorial project. |
| 10:31 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| 10:36 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team: conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. |
| 10:41 | Gives certificates to those who pass an online test. |
| 10:45 | For more details, please write to: contact@spoken-tutorial.org |
| 10:53 | Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. |
| 10:57 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India. |
| 11:05 | More information on this mission is available at the following link:[1] |
| 11:11 | This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thank you for watching. |
