While I appreciate the intent behind this move, I'm curious who are the people who were paying $2400 (that's a serious amount of money) for what appears to be an introductory course that imparts no work skills (it's usually easier to convince people to pay for courses when they feel it will have a positive impact on their careers or resumes)?<p><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621" rel="nofollow">https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx...</a><p>> This course explores the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to achieve their day-to-day work in a Linux environment. It is designed for experienced computer users who have limited or no previous exposure to Linux.<p>> Upon completion of this training you should have a good working knowledge of Linux, from both a graphical and command line perspective, allowing you to easily navigate through any of the three major Linux distributions.
Great! I've always been self-taught with Linux, so I'm sure I do a number of things in a suboptimal way, and this seems like a great way to clear some of those bad habits away.
More information about the "Introduction to Linux" course here: <a href="http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/system-administration-training/introduction-to-linux" rel="nofollow">http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/system-adm...</a><p>This page has a list of the covered topics: <a href="http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/introduction-to-linux/outline" rel="nofollow">http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/introducti...</a>
I'm already signed up to this. I'm hoping it'll go beyond what I picked up messing around with Capistrano and AWS. I've enjoyed other courses on the edX platform.<p>My problem is that there don't seem to be any resources available for learning sysadmin with web development and VPSs specifically in mind. After getting through a book on Unix sysadmin, I learnt about more than I need without really feeling confident about the topics that are relevant to hosting a webapp securely/reliably.
This definitely interest me. I've used Linux for hobby projects for ages now (I remember messing around with slackware and fighting to get sound and my winmodem working), but I've never seriously learnt how to really use it.<p>I've been thinking about starting my own Linux From Scratch project, but I don't know how much of a learning experience that would be. Has anyone here got any experience with LFS?
I'm taking a 4 day long Linux foundation course starting on Monday called "Linux performance tuning". Looks like it is going to be interesting.