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Re: Show HN: Linux sysadmin skills for anyone - a new online course

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Post by snori74 » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 5:31 PM UTC

s_henry_paulson wrote: post #16

I'm considering signing a couple of my employees up, but I'm reading the description: you'll be expected to learn and use grep, ssh, apt-get, tail and man I also see that restarting services is in there.. however I don't see anything that tells me any details about what the course actually covers. You also don't mention what flavor of Linux you're using for teaching. Also, launching this, and then starting the lesson…

Exactly. Using this first course to iron out the bugs in the process. Please go to the site now - its switched to taking registrations of interest, and "I'm considering signing a couple of my employees up..." tells me you're exactly the the sort of person that we need to continue the conversation with.

Re: Show HN: Linux sysadmin skills for anyone - a new online course

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Post by mgcross » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #28

zeroexzeroone wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with this statement, you have to start somewhere and many a Windows admin don't use command-line now. So essentially a beginner's course in command-line tools, i.e. beginning system administration, not only is good for Linux but can strengthen a Windows admin by helping them not be afraid of cmd.exe.

The course description sounds essentially the same as just following HOWTOs (which is how I taught myself the basic tools involved in sysadmin-ing many years ago). Just follow these old tutorials and save $20. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/categories.html

There are certainly tons of free resources out there, but I'm busy enough that $1/day for 20 days of emails with directed tutorials is more than worth it. Those howto's look like a great resource for more detailed (and varied) info, but I just need someone to guide me (and gently prod me) through the basics.

Re: Show HN: Linux sysadmin skills for anyone - a new online course

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Post by lazyfunctor » Fri, Nov 02, 2012, 10:00 PM UTC

nice idea! curious, where and how are you providing the server access with root access?

Re: Show HN: Linux sysadmin skills for anyone - a new online course

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Post by snori74 » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #26

That font needs to be bigger and red is too low contrast on white background - at least after sitting in front of a monitor for 12 hours.

Opps, now that you mention it, that's a bizzare colour choice - I'm one of the "7 to 10%" (according to Wikipedia), so didn't even notice! Now fixed.