[Courses] Courses wanted: basic Linux skills

[Clytie Siddall]

Some months ago (I'm working my way through the Free Software Tools  
course in the archive), Vaida posted this request:

>  Hi, I would be interested to write some courses for this mailling  
> list
> (since some of the courses here really helped me). I work as a network
> administrator and I know BSD/Linux systems pretty well. Also I develop
> programs (mostly in C) and I'm familiar with networking, security,
> firewalls, emulators, kernel programming, dns, I can show you,  
> amongst other
> needs, how to create a server for your own needs or just a  
> workstation.
> Please reply with course requests.

I don't know if it's still current.

If the Linux commands course isn't still running, I'd certainly be  
interested in a course in basic Linux use, how to set up and use your  
shell (bash, in my case), system configuration (locales, language,  
man, common config tasks), using cron to automate common tasks,  
common Linux commands, that sort of thing.

I'm _using_ these things, I just don't understand them. I want to  
understand them, to get past the copy and paste stage. I want to be  
able to do it myself.

For example, I run Mac OSX 10.4.5, which has a BSD base. I use my  
shell continually, to run gettext commands, for cvs/svn and/or ssh,  
I'm running a project for translating manpages, so I'm interested in  
man config., I'd certainly benefit from understanding how to navigate  
my system better, how installing programs actually works, options for  
different tasks.

Many thanks to anyone willing to run this type of course. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN