[lpi-discuss] looking for courseware

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday, 12 May 2005 23:56, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> 
wrote:
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
>
> > For the past few years, I have used LyX which I really like to
> > create printed courseware.
>
> And the AMS and IEEE have used LaTeX for close to 2 decades, and
> LyX comes with templates for both. Better yet, the OpenOffice XML
> to/from LaTeX conversion is pretty damn good, especially for the
> standard article/book templates.
>
> Especially since OpenOffice XML uses MathML, which was designed for
> oustanding interoperability with LaTeX, the grand-daddy of equation
> typeset.
>
> > In particular at this time, I am looking for two-day Linux
> > Sysadmin and two-day Linux Security curriculum.
>
> Ouch, that's a crash.
>
> I typically took 2 weeks just to get people just ready to study the
> LPIC-1 objectives from a book or a 3rd week (which I, myself, am
> not allowed to teach c/o a NDA).
>
> For LPIC-2, 2 weeks -- let alone 2 days -- ain't enough to cover it
> all.

I agree. Two days on sysadmin gets your through the absolute minimum 
on the command line, some users/groups, basics of the file system, 
and not much else really.

Two days on security gets you an intro to physical security, netstat, 
basics of nmap, tightening down the box, tcp wrappers and maybe a 
gentle introduction to the concept of a firewall.

LPIC-2: Anything less than a thorough 6 month college course 8 hours a 
day with practical labs is way way way inadequate for this.

The reason is the guys need a little bit of theory and a lot of 
playing with each concept you introduce

alan
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