<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 Sept 2023, 19:57 Carles Pina i Estany, <<a href="mailto:carles@pina.cat">carles@pina.cat</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi,<br>
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On 21 Sep 2023 at 09:45:23, Simon Burke via Wolves wrote:<br>
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> Long time no post.<br>
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I don't post much (I'm a bit more active in the Shropshire group...)<br>
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> So I've been convinced to help run a series of talks at work relating<br>
> to Linux in general.<br>
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I'm just going to write some ideas, but I don't know what's relevant in<br>
your work :-) (but, that, you can work it out :-D)<br>
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> My topic of choice is 'Linux for Windows Administrators'.<br>
> <br>
> I have the basic outline, but I thought I'd post and ask for suggestions of<br>
> what kind of things to include?<br>
> (The majority of people attending are considered 'academics' which should<br>
> be factored in).<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Initial ideas are along the lines of:<br>
> * Disk layout (not going into great depth, but touching on 'everything is a<br>
> file')<br>
> * Updates and patching.<br>
> * Powershell and bash. Plus some command equivalencies.<br>
> * Dare I touch text editors, as a lifelong vim user?<br>
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Because you mentioned academics, only perhaps about free software<br>
history and philosophy. And Linux history and philosophy as well.<br>
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And because of "for Windows Administrators":<br>
-Docker (or Podman, lxc...)<br>
-ansible (or alternatives)<br>
-Perhaps Terraform and other systems like that one?<br>
-Monitoring of systems (whatever might fit their use case: from big<br>
things like monit, cactus? or something simpler like simplemonitor)<br>
-Logging (where to find logs, how to get notifications, rotation of<br>
logs...)<br>
-If it was of interest: Mail servers (my "choice" is Postfix+Dovecot)<br>
(add other tools used there like spamassasin, filtering, etc.); or Web<br>
servers (Apache, nginx?), etc.; other type of servers...<br>
-Steps of booting on linux<br>
<br>
I'm sure that there are courses like this, perhaps some inspiration can<br>
be taken!<br>
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Cheers,<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for your suggestions. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I do have a mail talk in mind, as people not understanding email is one of the many banes of my existence right now. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would probably do follow-up talks about the usual services (Apache/nginx, myself/postgres, haproxy). But for now I'd be looking as a general intro for someone with zero Linux knowledge, only having experience of Windows. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So permissions (briefly touching ACLs), disk layout, sssd, basic firewall (ufw/firewalld, nftables), service management (probably just systemd), and editing files. Along with man and info pages, and finding support etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I think this might be a lot to cover in about 20-30 mins.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I daren't touch monitoring where I am due to it being a contentious subject at the moment. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I imagine we could probably fill half hour on just a brief history and philosophy of Linux. But I'm not sure how many people would be interested in all honesty. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Simon</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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