What Should be Included in a Linux Crash Course?

Olivier Van Acker asks: "Since I started working at my current job a year ago I've installed on average one (Gentoo) Linux machine a month. Included are developer desktop machines, development servers, router/firewall, web servers, video server, MPEG encoders, etc. (It's a platform for interactive television). Since I'm the only one who is able to maintain them I want to train two of my colleagues. I've got three days dedicated time, three computers to work with and they are both Linux/Open source newbies (A technician and a programmer). What should this crash course include, what is the best learning method and what resources are available online?" "My background: I'm a programmer, a systems engineer and I used to give IT training. I have been using Unix-based operating systems since 1995.

My list so far:

Linux system Installation

Software installation

General Linux system administration

Network administration

Web server configuration

Database administration

Video server administration

History of Unix and Linux

Philosophy of open source software"

Comments

Throw them into the deep end

[GypC]

Make them bring their own computers to work, confiscate their hard drives, give them an empty hard drive and a slackware install CD. Tell them they'll get their hard drives back in a week.

They'll figure it out if they like their pr0n enough...

Re:Throw them into the deep end

[BrokenHalo]

What Should be Included in a Linux Crash Course?

Heh. A Linux crash, of course. ;-)

try another distro...

[Anonymous Coward]

you'll be able to get more than a one/month rate thanks to all the time saved not waiting for gentoo to compile.

In a crash course?

[farnerup]

This should definitely be included:
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Crash

[!the!bad!fish!]

I think a linux crash course should include:
Kernel Panic &
Segmentation Fault