On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:53:26AM -0400, John BORIS spake thusly:
> Although late to this thread I am not sure if someone mentioned this
> but if you have a spare machine around he can "play" with that. I am not
> sure what distro you guys are using but Fedora would get him started
> with Red Hat. 

I enthusiastically second this. Buy him a book, a server or two (physical
server hardware, specs not important, so he can blow it up and reinstall as
many times as he wishes without having to bother anyone), some time, and the
specific goal of using it for something he is personally interested in. Let him
host a personal webpage on it, his own email domain, a personal programming
project, whatever. If he (or she) is a good egg who is really interested in the
technology and doesn't have too many other personal committments he'll consider
you a cool employer and spend whatever work time you allow plus plenty of
personal time messing with it and learning.

If he's a strict 9 to 5'er who really has to be paid to give a care about this
stuff then sign him up for RedHat classes.

Ideally, do both.

-- 
Tracy Reed

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