Steve Holdoway wrote re:
[snip]
The point on top of this is that through the Sydenham Freenix workshops
we've ensured that twice as much monthly, free, in-person system support
is available. And we're trying to upskill a group around the simplest
server-functional software toolset, with a focus on BSD/Debian/Ubuntu,
[snip]
If you're after the simplest toolset, then why are you offering to cloud the waters by basing them on multiple platforms, which can easily look so similar as to completely confuse said upskillees?
Verily thou pulleth unser legs.
Cloud? - simplify the choice enough to remain interesting while focused
(against a mish-mash hobbyist backdrop; referring to meets, not this
list). A small range, where skills are more directly transferable than
from Xdist to Ydist to Zdist brands. Because this subset is the business
end of *nix (corporate roll-outs aside.. or maybe not).
Semi-professional fun.
Confuse? - this constitutes the antidote to Windows, not the imitator.
And if you've got to look twice to distinguish a FreeBSD desktop from
Ubuntu, then that is teaching you something. Their difference is quite
structural.
And are you after a server or desktop toolset?
Both. Not at the same time forever, but accessible from single
environments until learners have enough nowse to deploy sans X. When the
(best available) guts have been learned, peel off the eye candy -
reducing it from the outset by choice. Bouncy cursors? - bah!
I can't see much use for server-based skills except for saddos like me who use
them for fun.
Sysad training isn't what you get at CPIT, for e.g.
Saddos like me find education fun tho, esp communications IT.
Ah, yes. Our range encapsulates core history: BSD-GNU-OSS.
My (diminutive) $0.02,
appreciated,
--
Rik
