'Linux 101' training

[William Park]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:58:29PM -0400, Mike Kallies wrote:
> >>Anyone have any suggestions for formal 'Linux 101' training? I'm looking 
> >>for a week or less course for no more than $1500 bucks. It would be nice 
> >>if this training led up to an LPIC. Anyone had any experience with Polar 
> >>Bear (http://www.polarbear.com)?
> >
> >IBM?
> >
> (whoops, my reply bounced, need to reconfigure Exim, let's try this 
> again...)
> 
> IBM spun them off a little while ago, they're independent again.
> They've got good machines, good instructors etc.  I've never been
> thrilled about any week-long in-class training courses, but if you
> already know a bunch of Linux stuff and you just want to be able to
> broaden your knowledge to write the exam, you could do worse.
> 
> One step better would be to form a study group.  Get a bunch of people
> to meet once a week in somebody's livingroom or something, discuss a
> chapter of a common book, run through some exercises, then go for beer
> and talk about all kinds of Linux and/or computer industry junk.  It's
> slower, and there's always somebody who doesn't do their reading, but
> who cares? it's professional experience, expands your contacts and helps
> you learn the material.
> 
> Hmmm... if people are interested, I might try to start something like
> this up in a few weeks.

You got access to black/white-board?  Because that's what you need.
Forget about projectors.

One thing that TLUG sorely needs is informal practical tutorials on
various topics for people who are not newbie but also not pro.  Eg.
    - programming languages (Python, Ruby, ...), 
    - mail (Sendmail, Procmail, ...), 
    - mail/news readers (Mutt, Pine, Tin, ...),
    - web browser (Firefox, Lynx, ...),
    - servers (web, dns, ntp, ...), 
    - protocols (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, ...),
    - script here, recipe there, etc.
    - editor (Emacs, Vim, ...)
    - thin-client setup (BOOTP, DHCP, NFS root, XDM, ...),
    - etc.
Short config, interesting features, novel use, blah, blah.

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