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Are the O'Reilly / Useractive Courses Any Good?

Posted by Cliff on from the your-informed-opinions-please dept.

IronBlade asks: "Hi all, I'm very interested to hear if the O'Reilly / Useractive Linux/UNIX System Administrator courses are any good. There are 4 units, and as they are offering them in a package (4 for the price of 3) until -Feb 15th-, I'm very interested in your opinion as to their worth. I have previous sysadmin experience on GNU/Linux and feel I have a reasonable grasp of things, but I don't have any proof of my skills, and certificates from the University of Illinois would be a Good Thing to add to the CV."

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  1. Wrong section by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    O'Reilly teaches Linux sysadmin courses. You said you want a GNU/Linux course. The GNU/Linux sysadmin course is taught at your local commune.

  2. Not UIC... UIUC by HuggybearVT · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not Illinois-Chicago (UIC), it's just Illinois. That's the main campus in Urbana-Champaign. (UIUC) http://www.uiuc.edu

  3. Developer Works LPI Cert Tutorials by blazerw11 · · Score: 4, Informative

    IBM's Developer Works has a number of Tutorials covering Linux. A number of these are designed to get you prepared for the LPI Certifications.

    They're written by Daniel Robbins of Gentoo fame and are quite good.

    Finally, you'll have to register, sign away first born...

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    A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
  4. Taking the courses right now by JHromadka · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm taking the courses right now. I've completed Linux I and am on Linux II: Networking & DNS. What I like about the course is that there is an actual RH 7.3 machine that you can ssh into (or use the web interface if you like) and you can mess around on it. Kerry, my instructor, is very good about quickly grading quizes and responding to questions by the next day.

    You do get some free books, but they are not meant to be used in the course directly. I got Unix in a Nutshell about 2 months after I started Linux I.

    I'm taking the courses because I want to get into Linux admin, learn a little more about what's going on under the hood of Mac OS X, and to make myself more marketable.

    BTW, Safari 1.2 doesn't seem to like the website very much (logging in just returns to the logon page), so I use Mozilla for the website and Terminal.app for working.

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  5. UIUC is a top school by love2hateMS · · Score: 2, Informative

    UIUC is a great Computer Science school. I would be quite surprised if they would put their name on something that lacked quality.