Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> Subject: Re: training (was Resourceful BSD/Linux Network Administrator) Message-ID: <20040705170806.47946.qmail@web60404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040704120520.GJ43549@iconoplex.co.uk>
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The > quality of Unix > training is SHOCKING. I mean, truly, truly awful. I'd like to take this opportunity to plug the junior college system in California. While your mileage may vary as to the know-how of the instructor and the quality of the course material, I took a Unix admin class last year that was awesome and it was dirt cheap - I'm talking roughly $200 for the book (Linux Administration Handbook) and fees all together. The instructor was a veteran admin who taught everything from the command line and spent time on the basics like vi, run levels, etc., and de-emphasized vendor tools like admintool and Mandrake's doohicky. He used RH for the class but I did everything on FBSD and someone else used Sol8 and everything worked with small mods. Here is his new class: http://www1.socccd.cc.ca.us/eservices/ClassDetail.asp?sectionID=22395&termid=20043 This JC is building a multi-semester Unix program to match the MCSE stuff they teach. This is a potent way to use an already existing infrastructure to expose people to *nix whose only experience thus far is with MS (who pays JCs to plaster their students with MS classes). ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. --Carl Sagan ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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