Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[John LeMay <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>]

> I would say get them basic skills first:
> --have them install a system which boots to the commandline
> --have them setup the X server with different window managers
> --show them how to use mc  
> --introduce them to "hello world scripts" in bash and perl
>         -> introduce them to init and the boot.local - autoexec.bat correlation 
> --show them the basic routine for compiling c source:
>         -> configure, make, make install
> --show basic ppp connect scripts and basic firewalling
> --introduce basic backups to cdrom (or better if they have it)
>        -> show them the correlation between  tgz  and zip, let them
>              tgz and untgz directories 

This sounds like an ideal "first steps" course. You could really stretch 
this to a full week - well, four days at least, of actual classroom 
training.

The only thing I would add would be to include using bzip2/bunzip2 for 
backups. Since current Gnu versions (at least) of tar include the "j" 
option as well as the "z" option, this just makes sense.

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John LeMay
KC2KTH
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848
Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions