RE: [Sheflug] Training (was Re: Installation hangs during disk format)

["Dawson, Alan" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Richard Ibbotson
>
>Steve
>
>> If the LUG were able to set something up of this nature, I'd be
>> very interested especially if the cost were "affordable" (not
>> necessarily free). I'm in Derby but that's no big deal to travel up
>> to Sheffield.
>
>There's a definitely a lot of interest in this at a sensible price 
>rather than being ripped off for something that isn't worth it.
>
>We'll sort something out :)
>
>
>
>Richard

 I often wonder what people mean by training in Linux - as the nature of it
seems to be flexible and changeable, rather than homogenous and prescribed -
there's always more than one way of doing things.  I remember reading an
article in an old UKUUG publication by , I think , Roger Whittaker(?),
regarding computer training in schools, saying that in the good old days
computer training used to be about programming, an essentially problem
solving skill, where as much of the IT training in schools is now around
'how to use word' or 'creating web sites with dreamweaver' which has more in
common with office practice or teaching typing than computing.

So by training in Linux do you mean 'file management using KDE'   'Shell
scripting in Bash', 'TCP/IP concepts and packet filtering firewalls', 'Using
Open Office 1.0 on windows xp' etc 

So I would say there is no such thing as training in Linux, by its very
nature - though you may be able to get training in some of the more well
defined topics listed above ( I hasten to add I know nothing about them
whatsoever).  

Or if there is such a thing as training in Linux its more of an organic
thing that you can pick up by hanging around mailing lists, reading
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html , installing systems,
breaking them, fixing them etc 

Contentiously Yours 

Alan Dawson
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