Rich,

I was browsing the O.U. site/forums and stumbled upon your name on the T155 forum.

What did you think of the course? I'd like to learn more about Linux, but in a structured manner, though it's a bit pricey. Worth it, or better off getting some good books? (the distance learning isn't an issue).

Michael

T155 pros & cons.
Cons:
Cost.
Pros:
Focuses on Ubuntu which is what you're using.
You get an end result (Pass mark on a 'certificate') to show for your efforts.
Support from fellow students.

A free alternative is this: http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/13#1

It seems to be based on Debian, so very similar to Ubuntu. There are quite a few really good alternatives from Major companies like IBM (Loads on their developerWorks site.) and Novell's OpenCourseWare. I recently saw someone from the Linux Professional Institute recommend the Linux Documentation Project as a good source of info. Here's an example: http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

That's just a very small selection of stuff that I think might be useful. There is absolutely loads of courses and guides available, a lot of which are very good. Here's a further sample: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-guides-15931/ Linuxquestions is a pretty good general forum, BTW.

HTH!

That will keep me busy for a while!

Thanks.

Michael

I've used Chrome for a while now,but last few weeks i've been having problems with it Azz.When i click on one of my favourites it takes ages for it to locate the site and invariebly fails.So today i downloaded Firefox and things are back to speedy speedy.

I'd never go back to IE.

It's only time that has prevented me from doing the same (I like to have plenty of time and a relaxed atmosphere when downloading stuff so if anything goes wrong I don't need to panic )