[TriLUG] Recommended training?

Mike Mueller mjm-58 at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 4 22:07:28 EDT 2002


On Wednesday 04 September 2002 20:44, Kevin Flanagan wrote:

> 	My employer needs to get about 6 fairly Sir level Windows design
> folks up to speed on Linux.  It appears that we are going to be
> deploying some Linux stuff fairly soon, but don't have hardly any
> expertise in house.

3 cheers for Kevin's employer.  The good news is that it's easier to get 6 
fairly Sr. level windows design folks trained on Linux than it is to get 6 
Sr. level Linux design folks trained on Windows.

Fundamentals (poke around on www.tldp.org guides section)
        How it's different from NT (sorry - I'm no help here)
        Install and configure a bare bones server (get a distro and a fairly 
modern machine that boots from a CD drive and see what happens; when you 
don't understand something, search the HOWTO and then ask questions here, 
choose lots of default values just to see how far you can get; you'll be 
pleasantly surprised; be sure to ask how to partition the hard drive on this 
list ;-)
        Automate the installation and configuration of a bare bones
server (Redhat has Kickstart.  I think you train it once and then it can 
repeat what you did)
        Patch and upgrade management  - I sense there is a preference for the 
RPM method or the Debian method since they provide a database of what's 
loaded; RedHat has the RedHat Network and a program called up2date; the 
Debian distro has a unique and effective way to accomplish the same thing;  
up2date and the Debian facility can keep you on the leading edge of security 
and functionality
        
        Then there's another number who need to know how to do basic
Systems Management of a Linux system (check out the guides at www.tldp.org as 
a first step)

        I expect that the distro will be RedHat. - probably gives you what 
you're looking for

What are the main applications you intend to run on your servers?

I came from hibernation and before that, embedded systems, to Linux and have 
been learning the things you outline above informally.  If you desire 
formality check of the rhce mail list at trilug.

-- 
mueller, mike

The larger purpose of the economic order, including Wall Street, is to 
support the material conditions for human existence, not to undermine and 
destabilize them.

-Editorial, The Nation, August 19, 2002



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