[cumbria_lug] Linux use

[Richard Smedley]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:16 +0000, Bob Groves wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Peter Normington wrote:
> >  Just wondering what people up here use Linux for?
> > More and more :-)
> >
> 
> OpenSUSE 10.3 on an old IBM A20M laptop 

IBM ThinkPads are great with GNU/Linux. Some of mine are
more than a decade old, and still going strong :-)

> plus my Packard Bell 3034, SUSE 9.3 on 
> an old PB Pulsar 600, and Mandriva on an Acer laptop. Just used for day to 
> day work (I teach adults) and running APTT. The Pulsar runs Apache and my 
> students test-run their websites on it.

You're teaching IT? You may be interested in the soon-to-be launched
Pilots qualification - an entry-level SysAdmin certification framework.
http://thepilots.org/

 - Richard

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