BSD Training

Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>

I'm writing this editorial from the classroom where I am teaching Daemon News' first training class. This is the last day of class, and I am pleased to report that it has gone very well.

I have really enjoyed teaching the class this week. The first session was a one day "Introduction to FreeBSD" class that covered almost everything in Annelise Anderson's book "FreeBSD: An Open Source OS for your PC." The next four day session, "FreeBSD System Administration", covered much of the book "FreeBSD Unleashed". In addition, we covered several things that weren't included in the books. I even managed to bring in a local expert to help teach because he was available. Greg Sutter came in and taught the class how to run PostFix, a mail transfer agent and Sendmail replacement.

I have to finish this up before the lunch break is over so the e-zine can finish publishing, and I can finish teaching, so this editorial will be shorter than most.

Since I had the class here, I asked them if they had anything to say about the training class; here are their responses.

"It was a great course, it helped me fill in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. The instructor took time to tailor it to fit my needs." - Paul Warner, Developer

"FreeBSD r0x0rs, w00t w00t" - Ralph Hitz, SP System Administrator, Germany

"I arrived on Monday with a whole list of questions and I am pleased to say that every one of them has been answered." -Iain Sinclair, Sysadmin, Santa Maria High School District

"I've taken the RedHat 252 course and this blows it away." - Phillip Benton, Unix Administrator, McDermott, Will & Emery

"Class was very informative. BSD already saved our company more than $400,000 and this class helped me consider BSD in the enterprise beyond the limitations of WebMin." - Usama Houlila, Senior Network Architect, McDermott Will & Emery

This is just the start of our training classes; we will be teaching another sysadmin class in New York soon, and have also already scheduled a BSD Security class. Check the training section of the BSD Mall for details.

-Chris