On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:59:24PM +1000, Perry, David J wrote: > Looks good, Geoffrey, hopefully LPIC201/202 will be available next year.
I'll see how my energy levels are next year :) > > One area which I think is important is system administration for small office home > office ( SOHO ) situations. This is the less sexy end of Linux but really important > for the end users. I speak from experience as sys admin for a small network which > supports two students. ;-) The things that really excite my users are: > * printing, especially when it stops for no apparent reason in the middle of a > 10 page document > * Mozilla browsers which don't have the necessary plug ins to render some web > sites > * Open Office Writer which doesn't have an Australian dictionary or thesaurus > installed. I've tried but couldn't get it to work. :-( > > This is my two bob's worth for the TBA section of the course. > These anoyances are part of the reason that the user base for Linux is made up of technical users or those like our families who have close access to a technical user. This will gradually change. However there is no course at this time to make mozilla do everything that IE does or make every .doc perfect in OpenOffice. You will remember as I do the painfull change over from ASR33s to glass ttys. Sooner or later this legacy commecial MS software will fall away before the tide of free and open software. Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
