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A series of free linux cources at ibm. Check it out.
Paul Swider wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| I've recently moved to this area and want to find some linux
| assistance. I'm working for a company bringing IT to remote
| locations.
| http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm
| Among our interests is using linux systems in these
| circumstances. Before I can deploy, however, I have to feel
| confident using such systems myself.
|
| I've played with a few distros and am getting comfortable
| with installs and configurations. I've settled, for the
| moment, on Mandrake. But I need to know more.
|
| My next step is to learn how to install other software on my
| Mandrake (or other?) system. This may appear trivial to some
| but I'm still puzzled by it, can't understand a universal
| method. After that, I want to then compile CDs with a distro
| and other software that I can send to these remote
| locations, with instructions, so others can do their own
| installations. Another way to solve this would be to create
| a disk image that would, more or less, install itself,
| though I gather this would be highly hardware dependent and
| so problematic. These last two notions are not, I don't
| think, identical but you can see where I'm going with this.
|
| So I need to learn myself but also then be able to teach.
| And I need to unlearn, wean myself from the Windows
| mentality (or at least dual-boot my brain). I've bought
| books and read online materials but still struggle, perhaps
| because I've read the wrong things, perhaps because it
| doesn't fit my learning style (whatever that means).
|
| In short, I'm looking for some guidance on these topics. I'd
| gladly sit down with a good teacher for a couple hours and
| likely be independently on my way, an existing zealous
| advocate newly empowered with real skills. Are there any
| patient educators out there willing to help me try to extend
| linux to the billions where it's most needed? I think
| there's plenty of business opportunity in this, too, and
| would gladly entertain such notions downstream but first
| things first.
|
| Thanks,
| Paul
| --
| Paul Swider
| pswider@e-greenstar.com
| Greenstar
| http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm
| Cell 727.776.9979
| eFax 208.248.1869
| http://www.e-greenstar.com/pswider.htm
|
|
|
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Jan Mason
813-546-0644
td376@mail.anonymizer.com
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