Comments on: Free “Intro to Linux” Course Now Available

By: zain

zain — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:37:25 +0000

hi,
suggest me any good and easy course coz i m interested in any proffessional course.

thanks

By: miuchin

miuchin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:54:01 +0000

Please send me again class 6 and class 7 .
Thanlks miuchin

By: Miuchin Svetozar

Miuchin Svetozar — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:08:08 +0000

Hi…to all,
I’m from Stip, Macedonia also 53 years old . Looking forward to learning all I can about Linux and learn more of the things I don’t know. I’m using the Suse 10.02 for a two months.
miuchin

P.S. forgive my poor english !!!

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:50:32 +0000

I would like to get this course, because i change linux for windows.

By: Henry Martin

Henry Martin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:55:39 +0000

This is a great idea, but I think Novell continue to shoot themselves in the foot. I started investigating Linux offerings years ago because I am one of the most fervent haters of Windoze and Microbloat, but I have to be absolutely honest and say that out of all the offerings now, which have boiled down to around 5, SuSE, RedHat and Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva, I peronally prefer any of them to SuSE.

SuSE made a HUGE mistake by not incorporating YUM, Red Carpet is nowhere near as user friendly as YUM and I find that many of the popular apps out there will run on all the versions above EXCEPT SuSE. Even the ones that WILL run on SuSE require hours of work to install them because Red Carpet doesn’t resolve, download and install all the dependencies, which is where YUM is outstanding.

I’ve had experiences with a couple of people I’ve tried to get over to Linux and they have all opted for Fedora, not just because it’s FREE but because it is far easier to install, use and maintain than SuSE (YUM again). It took me an entire day to track down all the dependencies for VLC and install them on my SuSE box and around 5 mins with Fedora by typing – yum install vlc

I’ve been flogging Novell Products since 1984 and I just find it sad that Novell continually mess up. SuSE is a nice distribution, but only if you have Novell Servers, because Novell have made things like iFolder3, iPrint, Novell Client etc., incompatible with all the other distros and I think this is a step in the Microsoft direction of trying to FORCE people into buying their product which is NOT in the spirit of Open Source.

By: Paul King

Paul King — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:47:30 +0000

Scott, great course but am missing lessons #2 & #3.
In addition, when receiving 1, 4 & 5, they were
sent twice (as in i’m on the list twice?).

By: Harold Bradley

Harold Bradley — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:51:08 +0000

Scott love the class but could you send me lesson #3. Some how im missing it.

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By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:51:06 +0000

Jim,
Yep, you bet. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Jim Hedge

Jim Hedge — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:34:03 +0000

Thanks

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:57:27 +0000

Jeff,
You may very well be onto something, there. I actually intend to expand it quite heavily. From a beginning standpoint, I just wanted to get something decent up. It’s a lot easier to improve on “something” than “nothing.” So that’s what I think I’m going to do. I do provide a link to my ebook, which takes people through installation and many other online resources. However, that information is not integrated directly into the course itself.
Thanks for stopping by, I will take your point into consideration as I move forward.

By: Karoly Szentmihalyi

Karoly Szentmihalyi — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:28:04 +0000

Dear Scott,

I am an IT professional and Iam eager to learn Linux especially
Suse10.2 desktop.

Many thanks for your kind help,

Karoly

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:11:49 +0000

Hmmm…

Great idea but without actually having read it myself I fear it doesn’t go quite far enough.

As the course draws to a close do you point readers at other resources to continue their inward education into the day to day usage, troubleshooting, maintaining of it or do you leave them in the lurch so to speak.

This is in no way intended as a criticism because anyone who does anything (almost) for free these days is to be applauded.

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:25:32 +0000

Peter,
Absolutely, mate. Please do. Thanks for stopping by and have a good one.

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