Ubuntu course material

[Robert Stoffers]

Hi,

I think you might be interested in this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EngineerCertification

Robert Stoffers

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:49 +0200, Søren Hansen wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'd like to propose another project for the DocTeam: Ubuntu course
> material.
> I have a consulting company and I'm going to offer courses in Linux, and
> I intend to release my course material under the GFDL.
> I have three courses in mind:
>  * Introduction to Linux on the command line
>  * Linux system and network administration I
>  * Linux system and network administration II
> 
> The contents of each course will be something like:
> 
> Introduction to Linux on the command line
>  * Introduction to Linux
>   * History
>   * Philosophy
>  * Files and folders
>   * Ownership and privileges
>   * Basic file handling (cp, rm, chmod, cat)
>  * Shell expansion (wildcards, etc)
>  * Useful tools
>   * find
>   * file
>   * grep
>  * Pipes and redirection
>  * Editors
>   * nano
>   * emacs
>   * vi
>   * sed
>  * Shell scripting
>  * Process management
> 
> Linux system and network administration I
>  * The system admin role
>  * Users and groups
>  * The login process (.profile etc.)
>  * The file system hierarchy
>  * Devices (/dev, lspci, lsusb)
>  * Partitioning (also LVM)
>   * Swap
>  * Filesystems (ext[23], xfs, vfat, ntfs)
>   * i-nodes and hardlinks
>  * Backup concepts
>  * cron
>  * Boot process (inittab and /etc/rc?.d)
>  * Printing (CUPS and bsd tools)
>  * Software management (apt-get'n'friends)
>  * Network (Ethernet and IPv4 only)
>   * Interfaces
>   * /etc/hosts
>   * /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Linux system and network administration II
>  * IPv4 details
>   * OSI
>   * ARP
>   * Netmask, network, broadcast and loopback addresses
>  * DHCP
>  * DNS
>  * telnet and netcat
>  * LAN equipment
>   * hub
>   * switch
>   * router
>   * firewall
>   * repeater
>  * ethtool
>  * ifconfig
>  * routing (route and iproute2)
>  * iptables
>  * NFS
>  * LDAP
>  * DNS administration
>   * A
>   * PTR
>   * CNAME
>  * DHCP administration
>  * SSH administration
>  * NTP administration
>  * Apache administration
>  * Debian repositories
> 
> Anyhow, the reason I'm bothering you with this is of course because:
> 1. I'd like to share the results with you
> 2. I'd like to get some help making this material really good!
> 
> Except the modules that are really Debian/Ubuntu specific (e.g. the
> "Debian repository" one), I intend to start each module with explaining
> how it works in concepts and behind the scenes and then explain how
> Ubuntu handles it (the company is very Ubuntu-centric). E.g. network
> configuration would start out with  ifconfig and route, and end with a
> talk about /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> One of the Danish LUG's have created a stack of Linux related books
> including one about the Linux command line and one on administration, so
> I'll probably be able to use some material from that, but the problem
> with them is that they're meant to be used as a book not as course
> material, so they're very verbose, while course material tend to be
> quite terse so the participants will keep their attention aimed at the
> teacher instead of reading the material.
> 
> My biggest problem right now is that I want to hold my courses in Danish
> and make the course material in Danish, so I'll have to translate
> everything too, but that's just life..
> 
> So, is anyone interested in working with me on this?
> 
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