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Grex Agora41 Item 107: Basic Linux Training
Entered by rlejeune on Fri Apr 19 17:31:13 UTC 2002:

Basic Linux Training's new semester is starting on Monday, 6 May 2002. 
Registration for that class closes Saturday, 4 May 2002. The web site 
is :

http://www.basiclinux.net/

and according to them: "Basic Linux Training™ is a brief, introductory 
level course written specifically for those coming from a DOS/Windows 
background, without any knowledge of Unix or programming. The course is 
designed to be used with virtually any introductory Linux textbook, and 
is vendor and distribution neutral. The lessons cover the initial 
installation and configuration of Linux on your PC.  They begin with a 
brief overview of the history and origins of UNIX, GNU, and Linux, 
describing the 'philosophy' underlying the system design. The lessons 
also address the choice of a distribution, preparing your hard disk, 
and the actual installation of the base system. Once the basic system 
is properly installed and configured, we continue with lessons on 
making your ISP connection through Linux, adding additional programs, 
setting up the graphical user interface, rebuilding the kernel, 
updating software packages, understanding the filesystem, the basic 
commands and programs, and the essentials of administering your new 
system. There are also lessons to give you a more in-depth introduction 
to shells and shell programming, booting and boot managers, XFree86 and 
X applications, networking, text editors, programming tools, bug 
tracking, software testing, security, customizing your system the way 
you want it, and performance tuning."

You can register at:

http://www.basiclinux.net/register.html

The course consists of two weekly lessons taking about an hour and a 
half each to complete and weekly IRC sessions at irc.debian.org on 
channel #BLT (usually on Sundays). You will also be required to sign up 
for the mailing list and can expect 25 to 50 messages per day, although 
you can have them all delivered to you as a digest. This is designed to 
highlight the collaborative nature of Linux and is especially desgined 
at getting newbies to Linux up to speed. 

All of this, in the best Linux tradition, is FREE!!! All that is 
require of the student is some time and effort. 

Happy Hacking!

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by oval on Fri Apr 19 20:54:00 2002:

sweet!

#2 of 4 by daecryn on Mon Apr 29 13:51:13 2002:

Hi, I've been using linux for several years, starting with Debian 1.3,
and then going through all major distros, until I finally started using
a homebrewed version of Linux as my main OS on my machine.  My question is
if you are in need of any assistance from someone who is willing to be
friendly to the newbies, and probably able to help answer questions,
maybe sort of a 'teacher's aide' type of thing.  I'm not much of a
programmer, but I like to help out where I can with Linux, since I
believe in alternatives, and free as in speech computing.

#3 of 4 by amazon on Tue May 7 19:28:39 2002:

I am in the same situation. I have been using Linux about two years but am
not much of a programmer -- I can code and do shell scripts, but it really
isn't my thing. But I do enjoy helping out newbies, and there are a lot of
newbies on this list, so it works out fine for me.

#4 of 4 by rlejeune on Wed May 8 12:37:18 2002:

To access the lessons, go to :

http://www.basiclinux.net/lessons

Username:  bltlinux@lycos.com
Pawssword: basic

irc: irc.debian.org Channel #BLT

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