News from PANUG/BizNix - May 22, 2003
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LEARNING LINUX

A few weeks ago, we learned from people who attended
Brainshare that Novell will give customers a choice in
the future. They can run NetWare on top of its classic
kernel or they can choose Linux. Given the much better
memory allocation, scheduling, threading, etc. that
Linux offers, anyone who wants to use their NetWare
server as an application server will be smart to choose
Linux.

Macintosh users running OS X are running a Linux-like
operating system and popular Open Source programs. At
least one manufacturer of a computer game console is using
Linux for its future console. Many vendors of embedded
devices are using Linux for the reduced manufacturing
costs and greater simplicity and reliability. The message
should be clear. Unless you're near retirement age, Linux
or some similar Unix-like operating system is in your
future.

When you learn Linux, nearly everything you learn is
directly usable with other similar operating systems.
There's no steep learning curve moving between, say,
Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. This knowledge also has a
very long shelf life - decades.

PANUG and BizNix are hosting a 5-day/5-week course that
will get you up to speed on Linux. It works like this:
You attend a classroom session every Monday for five
weeks. On the other days of the week, you're using your
own computer (or one that is loaned to you) to go
through directed, hands-on exercises that help reinforce
what you learned in the classroom. These exercises take
from about 4 to 8 hours each week. You set your own pace
and learn as much detail as you like.

One goal of the course is to teach you enough so that
you can pass any of the four Linux certification programs.
For course details, checkout http://panug.org/16

 
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