[plug] Linux Traing Courses

[alex polglaze]

The will be a series of 3 Linux training courses commencing on Sunday
20th February with course 1. Course 2 will be on Sunday 27th February
and Course 3 will be Sunday 12th March. All courses will start at 0900
and conclude around 1500.

Leon Brooks is providing the technical expertise. 

Lunch and morning tea is included as well as a copy of RH6.1. You will
need to supply your own computer, monitor and keyboard and any power
adapters. We will provide one power outlet to each person. You must
ensure that your computer works.

Course 1 : Linux Setup

It is designed for beginners and covers who have a working machine and
want to load Linux and for those who can't get Linux loaded
successfully.

Peripherals dealt with will include NICs, printers and modems sound
cards and other esoterica (IR interfaces etc) will depend upon how we go
for time. Two classes of machine will be dealt with: completely blank
and with-precious-Windows-or-other-partition (but back it up: if you
mistype or don't listen and destroy that partition, it's your fault and
you fix
it).

Cost will be $150 per person.

Course 2 : Package Management.

How to install and remove RPMs and modules from similar managed
packaging systems, including conflict and dependency resolution; how to
download, unpack, compile and install unmanaged packages such as the
traditional compressed tarball. Techniques to use if documentation is
lacking.

Course pre-requistes; Must have attended course 1 or have a Linux system
that has been running successfully for some time.

Cost will be $195 per person.

Course 3 :  Servers and Services.

Roundup of fundamental networking principles; how to set up and maintain
common services: masquerading/firewalling, name service, web, proxies,
FTP, lpd, Windows File/Print services (SaMBa). Staying on top of updates
and security issues.

Course pre-requistes; Must have attended course 2 or have sufficient
experience in Linux to set up and install packages successfully.

Cost will be $195 per person.

If there are insufficient starters for any course, it will be cancelled.
If you are interested in attending any or all of these courses please
contact me directly off list.

Alex Polglaze