FREE
TRAINING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
YOUR USAGE OF MY SYSTEM(S)AND MATERIALS, IMPLIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO, NOT USE, YOUR USAGE OF SUCH SYSTEMS, AGAINST ME.
YOUR USAGE OF MY SYSTEM(S) AND MATERIALS, IMPLIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO, NOT USE, ANY KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE GAINED THEREBY, AGAINST ME.
I
am grateful to you for reading this.
I apologize if I cause or if I have caused you any inconvenience. UNIX-like, here means, similar to, UNIX. What is UNIX, may perhaps, be, answered, here
I have a free training
program for folks to learn FreeBSD, Linux, and, UNIX-like operating systems, etc. It is very easy to
understand
linux, once you have done this training. Linux based operating systems, may be considered
similar to UNIX-like operating systems. If you think that other people may benefit from
this training,
then, please forward them this email.
If
you decide to learn UNIX-like os's, then, you may read this material. Perhaps,
a desire
to learn, patience, not shy in asking questions and hard
work are more important
to learn technologies.
This training does
not perhaps resemble the training programs offered by other
institutions, however if you start it and ask me questions,
perhaps I will be
able to help you to learn.
You can do
this course at your own pace and per your own schedule.
I WILL
answer all your technical questions.
Let's get started, here's the information about the free account in an UNIX-like operating system, here, this includes, a, free account, on, a, Solaris 10 system.
You may use any of these online "office suites" to keep backups of important data (not system) files (You need to backup both system and data files to completely backup your computer) and have access to them from any online computer:
google apps http://www.google.com/a/org/ Desktoptwo http://desktoptwo.com/ Thinkfree http://thinkfree.com Eyeos http://eyeos.org/
If you are considering moving away from windows/apple for your home computing, then, you may consider ubuntu and/or EVEN BETTER IS PC-BSD
Please
find Quiz#1 in this file, complete it and send it to me. Quiz#1 is a
good
start and should not take too much of your time. Quiz#1 is
based on the reading
mentioned here.
Please let me
know if you have any problems downloading this file.
I
recommend that you start with the free account and do some basic
exercises as
mentioned in the instructions before installing
UNIX-like operating systems, and/or, UNIX-like operating environments. Doing this will
familiarize you with UNIX.
These are the topics we will cover in the UNIX training using FreeBSD
You may
download Openoffice from http://www.openoffice.org for free to open
Microsoft word/excel etc files.
You also need this
file:
http://www.kartik.com/Installing_FreeBSD.pdf
The html version of this file is at:
http://www.kartik.com.com/Installing_FreeBSD.html
This
file contains instructions with screenshots to help in installing
FreeBSD
OVER VMware on a computer running windows. ( This file is
different from the
file that was first mentioned, you must
download and read both files)
You may take Quiz#2 after you have completed some of the basic tutorials AND installed FreeBSD
If you want to learn Linux, then you may take the free training in Linux, please download these instructions for installing Red Hat Fedora Core 6 on a PC running windows using VMware:
http://www.kartik.com/Installing_FedoraLinux.pdf
The word format file is at:
http://www.kartik.com/Installing_FedoraLinux.doc
The html version of this file is at:
http://www.kartik.com/Installing_FedoraLinux.html
Click here for instructions on installing Fedora Core 6 Linux on an old PC/laptop without using VMware
Click here for information on Ubuntu and for information on installing software on Linux
This is an alternative to Microsoft Windows and an alternative to Ubuntu
Click here for information on Suse and OpenSuse Linux
Free Books on various computer and IT topics
A great alternative to LAMP, I like this.
Good projects to do and to learn
Open Source portal software
Open Source content management software
Use this and this to install LAMP on Fedora core 6. This link for installing LAMP On Fedora core 7
Please DO NOT hesitate to contact me if you
have ANY questions.
I will help you. I can make myself available
on phone and/or yahoo instant
messenger to answer your technical
questions. Just get started on it!
once you start, you will begin
the learning process.
If you get anything at all out of this
training - it will be a very positive
accomplishment. Please,
please please, DO NOT hesitate to ask questions - even
a
question that may seem a novice question, there are NO bad questions.
I
f you start you will learn.
Please DO NOT hesitate to
request root access to my systems if you feel that it
will help
you.
The success of this training depends on me and you and on
our interaction.
I hope that you will not hesitate to ask me for
help.
If you complete Quiz#1 and read everything and let me
know that you've done so, and if you complete some of these tutorials,
I'll then, send you quiz#3 and give you
root access to a system to complete quiz#3.
I also request
your suggestions/comments/criticism for the betterment of
this
training.
Thank you. Good Luck.
Kartik Vashishta
PS:
For those who may ask "who are you": http://www.kartik.com
NOTE: Acknowledgment, to the owners
and/or authors of the materials used in this program, is due, and, is, hereby made. I, am, grateful, to, all those, whose, material, is online, and, is,
used, in, this program. Acknowledgment is also due, to, all the good
stuff online, and, to all those people, who, have, helped, in any way, and, acknowledgment is also due, to, those entities, from, where/whom, I have, learned and/or
been inspired. This training program is dedicated to the teacher.
While
rebooting your computer, please make sure that you DO NOT have any
bootable CD's (including Linux Cd'sin the cdrom drive because your
computer may start booting from it! you might think that you are
succesfully installing!!! and you may accidentally destroy your
computers data. Please secure all Cd's receipts etc that came with
your computer when you bought it. Please backup ALL data and system.
I will not be responsible for any loss, damage etc. I make no
guarantees of any kind and none are implied either.