Re: Linux at ICL (fwd)

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

I thought this may be of interest to the group.......my reply to Roger
Whittaker at SuSE.
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I'll be giving server & some of the more
enlightened PC engineers an
overview of Linux in general and then an installation workshop, which may
feature two different distributions as a "compare & contrast". Brand X
will probably be Mandrake 7, but I could always do Corel for a laugh :)

I'll then cover some basic networking stuff in SuSE - setting up a
network, connecting to another Linux or Un*x box and at least one Windows
platform. 

ICL do what they call "server software for engineers" courses which are
pretty basic. I aim to show that Linux is a cost-effective pseudo-Unix
training platform and a basis for advanced training, especially as the
software is effectively free as opposed to the 4-figure sums for Unixware
etc. I'm told the available machines are "quite low spec" - P133, 64Mb,
1.2Gb. Should run rather nicely with Linux.

Amusing anecdote corner - on the "Windows NT Level 2" course we were given
some brand-new Fujitsu servers to install NT on, which involved messing
about wiht driver disks to install the SCSI card since NT doesn't
natively support it. Rather amusingly, I returned early from lunch, fed
the box my SuSE 6.0 cds and had a server up and running with Samba
configured befor anyone had got as far as putting the SCSI drivers on
their boxes - SuSE supported the hardware straight out of the box. SuSE 1,
NT nil.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roger Whittaker wrote:

> I'll send you some of the `CeBIT' evaluations.  These are enhanced
> versions of the 6.3 evaluation.
> 
> Tell us more about what you're doing: it sounds interesting. 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, wulfie wrote:
> 
> >  Apart from my membership of SpireLUG & ShefLUG I work for ICL. I have been
> >  asked to do some linux training for interested engineers. As you may know,
> >  Fujitsu are ICL's parent company and have recently approved linux for use
> >  on their servers. Needless to say, I'd rather see SuSE in there than
> >  RedHat etc. Is there any chance that you can get me say five or six copies
> >  of SuSE evaluation cds so we can do the training then send them off with a
> >  disk ? If there are any 6.2 Eval disks left around they would be just
> >  great (knowing the problems with lpr etc in 6.3).    
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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