On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Mike Leo wrote:
I made the mistake of offering a linux basics class at work.
Since when is teaching a class on Linux a mistake! ;-) Actually, I have taught two such classes to the front-line admins at work. Of the two, the far more successful class used floater laptops booted with Knoppix. Knoppix much reduced the setup time and allowed me to keep the floater laptop guy happy by not blowing away the XP installs on the machines. I highly recommend it for teaching. I had various network services serving up a complete environment to the student machines; all the machines were on an isolated network in the conference room. I used a USB key to store the net service config files as well as the course material. I presented the class material in PDF to the student laptops with Apache. Everyone plugged in a floater, booted their Knoppix CD, and then browsed to the class material on my machine. I can't find the text I used anymore, but tldp.org seems to have some much nicer free texts now: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html BTW, Should WLUG have a reserve of Ubuntu CDs available? I can put in an order for a large set if folks like the idea. - Adam