<div>HI Walter, welcome to the LUG.</div>
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<div>Training is an interesting topic ....</div>
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<div>How I learned / picked up Linux.</div>
<div>The secret was to never to give up and master google searching! Using google properly will always solve/give an indication of what you need to do in 99.9999 of any issues your have (more so than with Windows issues). With this I didn't just learn about Linux/BSD I also developed a high level of problem solving skills - this has now become instinctive when working on my Linux servers. Its not easy and takes many hours (mostly in the am :D) to work things through.
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<div>It often helps if you have a task - goal when installing your Linux system and not just installing for the sake of. E.g. Setting up a web server. This helps motivate you and usually you solve lots of common issues on the way to getting your box setup.
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<div>Hardware Issues</div>
<div>Dreaded hardware issues, we have all experienced these and with linux this is usually to do with X and your graphics card not being supported. There aren't that many of us that go and try to write a new driver to support unsupported, personally if I hit problems with a graphics card or other hardware I just go and buy one that is compatible. Lifes too short and usually I want to get things working quickly. (i do prefer only the command line though and seldom use X)
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<div>Not sure about this, if your a Solaris guy I guess you could go on some Sun training courses. Maybe you should consider becomeing a Red Hat Systems Administrator, google "redhat qualifications" and see what course are available. I'm not advocating redhat as distribution but you would learn a lot of basix Linux skills that would be very beneficial. As for online courses, I would recommend as already stated google and the Linux distributions web site and the man command line utility on how to recompile the Kernel. I use VMWare for most my development work nowadays and highly recommend its using for playing/learning the linux trade.
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<div>Remember you can always post questions to this group where we will do our best to help you out.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/03/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Walter</b> <<a href="mailto:walter@helvatron.co.uk">walter@helvatron.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Mark,<br><br>I recently signed up with LUG Watford having found some entries on the web.<br><br>I have spent the last 10 years installing and maintaining Windows Systems
<br>and I am getting very bored with it now. As I am about to semi retire my<br>project is to get the hang of Unix/Linux.<br><br>Can you recommend any courses, preferably via internet/email so I can get<br>instructions and advise on building Kernels and hardware troubleshooting.
<br>What I have found on the Web is good but it never quite goes deep enough or<br>I often just don't understand the instructions / jargon. I have looked at<br>LFS but even that throw up a lot of questions.<br><br>I have managed to install several versions of Linux, from Red Hat to Debian
<br>but something almost always wont work correctly, usually to do with a<br>hardware device and when I get the driver and try compile it I usually come<br>unstuck.<br><br>Many thanks, Walter Jaggli<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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