Hackett and Bankwell - The Linux Comic
Hackett and Bankwell is an educational comic designed to teach the finer points of the GNU Linux platform using Ubuntu. Written to clearly explain complex concepts, Hackett and Bankwell can be instrumental in helping new users understand the various elements that comprise the operating system and how they work together. New users often feel overwhelmed by all of the new information they need to digest in order to confidently use Linux, and
Hackett and Bankwell provides them a quicker way to master the material.
Hackett and Bankwell Issue Guide
Synopsis: Woody Hackett learns from his business partner, Jerome Bankwell, that they are the new owners of a documentary production studio that still uses Mastersoft, and that he will need to travel to their facilities in the desert in order to get them setup with Ubuntu Linux. At "
Interplanetary Pictures," Woody shows their crew how to get started using the Ubuntu GUI following an installation. Guiding them through some basic software installation, Woody demonstrates to Kaori Soto and her associate Calvin Green basic ideas of GUI operation, so that they can use what they've learned to install other programs they might need down the road.
Areas covered in first issueSynopsis: Woody has to get Kaori and Calvin familiar with the Command Line Interface before Mastersoft notices that one of its botnet-herding spy drones has been downed. Fortunately, the
Interplanetary Pictures staff members learn quickly. Woody teaches them all about the bash shell and shows them how to get started using it, as well as how to learn more about the terminal. After getting acquainted with command line phenomena like relative vs. absolute paths and file permissions, Kaori and Calvin get fired up wanting to take control of the console themselves.