On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 at 08:26, Ma. Corazon M Cruz wrote:
>when are you planning to have this? i really would like to learn linux.
>our previous sysad suddenly left for germany and since i was the only
>one who seemed fairly interested, i was given the position. can we
>spread it over a few weekends, rather than during weekdays/nights? i
>don't know how complicated it is to learn all these, i know of only a
>few commands, and it's been years since i used anything other than what
>some (most?) of you refer to as Windoze.
For whatever it's worth aside from classroom-setting training sessions I
believe that reading helps a lot. I for one learned Linux 100% by reading
(even asking around I'd consider reading, considering we're using our
computers to communicate with each other, hehehe). Although I would expect
learning to be quicker for most people with a teacher giving lectures and
supervising hands-on exercises, while waiting for these training sessions
to be actualized reading won't hurt at all.
For starters I highly recommend the Linux Documentation Project (LDP)'s
System Administrator's Guide (SAG). The LDP HOWTO's are also great. If you
want to shell out a few bucks to help the LDP out you may want to get a
copy of "Linux Undercover" from RedHat. Linux Undercover is a printed
collection of HOWTO's and mini HOWTO's. They're great if you prefer
reading printed material to reading from your monitor.
Unless the URL's changed you may check out
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/> for online copies of the LDP
documentation.
With the help of the LDP documentation (I ordered a copy of Linux
Undercover together with my first copy of RedHat Linux for which I got
myself the boxed set from RedHat) and the help of the PLUGgers I was able
to learn enough to set up a server from scratch to handle data serving
using Samba <http://www.samba.org/>, e-mail using Fetchmail
<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/>, QMail <http://www.qmail.org/> or
Postfix <http://www.postfix.org/>, and IMP <http://www.horde.org/> among
others. I've never attended formal sessions (even with my free entrance
during Linux99 I spent most of my time running after Migs, hahaha).
Another benefit of learning on your own by doing research on the Internet
versus going to classes is that you're not forced to try to learn
everything you need in one sitting. I doubt this is possible. You really
just get the basics. I believe that working with Linux, like the rest of
life, is about learning a little a step at a time, making some mistakes
and learning from them, and moving on.
Just my 2 cents worth. :)
>Plant Biotechnology Laboratory
>National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
>Albert Hall, Jacinto cor Lakandula Streets
>University of the Philippines, Diliman. 1101
Wow. Hahaha. BTW, FWIW I'm a BS CompSci undergrad student in UP Manila. I
just shifted from BS Biology, also in UP Manila. Grabe, suko ako sa Plant
Anatomy (Botany 119 here). Hindi ko talaga type eh. Hehehe. ;>
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