[Gllug] Linux Roadshow

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 11:34 AM, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:

>
> What I think would be useful would be a series of workshops (e.g. in the
> evening?), demo's that can be used just for that (to demo features of
> Linux) but also for HOWTO's and similar

I know what you mean about howtos I helped some people to put on an LDAP 
workshop recently but I think that something shorter sharper and aimed 
more directly at beginners to intermediate level I am not sure that it 
would be organisable but I think that a weekly 1/2 to an hour walk through 
of a linux Howto document each week would be a good idea and leave plenty 
of time for beer and curry afterwards.

I have also been promising myself for some time that I will get some sort 
of central links for good free web based tutorials.

>  as it seems to me that the major
> problem for Linux in the corporate market (even as a home user desktop) 
> is how to get support as it is difficult to find.

Linux is well supported and you have found it. :-D

> Hey, I'm a highly
> experienced computer techie but even I find Linux hard to deal with ...
> oddly though I keep on trying to single click everything on my Windows
> desktop. That's confusing :-)

I know how you feel I moved from M$ to Linux some time ago and found the 
change confusing at first.  I don't know if it will work for you but I 
found my skills increased faster using the command line rather than 
learning loads of different GUI like Swat and linuxconfig to make life 
easier, suddenly all I had to learn was Bash and Vi.

Peace Jim

"your ignorance is our strength."
--George Orwell


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