[Watford] Lug Update

[Walter]

Hi Mark,

I recently signed up with LUG Watford having found some entries on the web.

I have spent the last 10 years installing and maintaining Windows Systems
and I am getting very bored with it now.  As I am about to semi retire my
project is to get the hang of Unix/Linux.

Can you recommend any courses, preferably via internet/email so I can get
instructions and advise on building Kernels and hardware troubleshooting.
What I have found on the Web is good but it never quite goes deep enough or
I often just don't understand the instructions / jargon.  I have looked at
LFS but even that throw up a lot of questions. 

I have managed to install several versions of Linux, from Red Hat to Debian
but something almost always wont work correctly, usually to do with a
hardware device and when I get the driver and try compile it I usually come
unstuck.

Many thanks,  Walter Jaggli