Linux training?

Beltaine

Trying to source some Linux training to spend our professional development budget on.

I work for a public school system, and Ubuntu seems to be gaining ground quickly in education. We also have some redhat and CentOS servers running here that I attempt to support.

I don't know what/if any commercial training is out there or what to look for. Do I need to find something that's distribution-specific or is there over-arching training for all flavors?

Asking here in hopes that some of you guys have experience with this sort of thing and can point me in the direction of something worthwhile.

bowen

Look at the LUGs in your area.

http://www.linux.org/groups/

They may be able to offer you some places to look for stuff like this. Also contacting the distro's support will sometimes yield good results. The LUG will probably be your best bet and they're a good source of information. A Linux is a Linux, for the most part.

Jimmy King

Ubuntu or Red Hat/CentOS are definitely the way to go for training. Those are what are mostly going to be see in a professional setting... mostly Red Hat these days, but Ubuntu is gaining ground.

As to if it needs to be vendor specific, though, it really depends. The various Linux distros mostly vary in the initial installation, how you install apps, and where apps install to. There's also some differences in how things start up at the beginning and how apps start. They are all alike enough that anyone who is inclined to work with Linux anyway will have little trouble moving between distros but people who don't really care or have trouble with technical things anyway would be confused by the more back end stuff like I mentioned above. From a purely user level view, the difference between distros is normally no worse than going from Win9x to XP.