Linux admin classes?

From: KKramsch (karlUNDERSCOREkramsch_at_yahooPERIODcom.invalid)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:01:12 +0000 (UTC)

For the past couple of years I've had a Linux Debian system at home
that I don't understand very well. It's useable, but just barely.
I purposely chose Debian Linux (as opposed to, say, Macintosh)
because we use Linux at work, and I wanted to get to understand it
more deeply.

Well, I've failed miserably. I did manage to install Linux and
got a barely functioning system up. But in my hands it really
sucks. I can do practically nothing on it; it's buggy; it just
sucks. This is in part because I can hardly find any drivers or
info for the hardware (a Toshiba laptop). But mostly it's because
I can't make any sense of the documentation that I've found (how-tos,
faqs, a couple of printed books).

I know that it is possible to have really great Debian systems, so
the problem must be with me. Bottom line: where can I take a
*class* (with human teachers that I can ask questions to--as opposed
to books or videos) on basic Linux system administration?

karl 

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