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$2,400 'Introduction To Linux' Course Will Be Free and Online This Summer
kc123 writes "Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its "Introduction to Linux" course free and open to all. The Linux Foundation has long offered a wide variety of training courses through its website, but those can generally cost upwards of $2,000. This introductory class, which usually costs $2,400, will be the first from the Linux Foundation to run as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)."
As long as I never see or need to use the command line, it doesn't matter what operating system I use.
you'll receive a bonus absolutely free! it's Saturday, here. waiting for DST. bored. sucks.
I've been a Microsoft user myself, since about age 4 (now 30) - so I know Windows backward and forward, and knew DOS pretty well for a time. I'd like to branch out, and a top-notch training course in Linux for free seems appealing. I'm sure I could self-educate if needed, but having a more organized study laid out - for free! - sounds great.
William George
well for those of us that have been using one version or another for the last ten years
it might be a good review
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" As long as I never see or need to use the command line, it doesn't matter what operating system I use."
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Most of the programs i use DO NOT !!!! use a GUI
or do not need the one that it might have
the terminal is GREAT !!!!
learn to use it !!!!!
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
What sorta person pays $2400 for an online course on linux intro material?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
all the Linux haters to settle down once they become more informed?
I'm hopeful, but not optimistic.
But if you don't host them on your own domain and they have to be loaded from another site: you're an asshole.
Here's a perfect opportunity to get girls interested in computing. Knowing how to get around on a Linux box seems like a better first step than trying to teach programming, it's pretty much rote learning and a level playing field for beginners.
That was possibly the most random, apropos-of-nothing thing I've ever read on the Web.
And they're trying to flood the market with Linux talent to push the cost down.
That's all this is.
It's shit.
The GUI changes more often than a whores drawers and the young neckbeards involved would rather spend all their time agonising about the roundedness of the desktop manager's window corners than write any actual usable software that any sane human would want to use (i.e. they're just copying Crapple's cast offs...) FFS how many times a year can you rewrite a GUI to let you simply launch programs and manage files ? F.F.F.F.F.F.FS. !!!!!
It's fucking great on servers though as the older neckbeards can't see very well any more so actually all get together and do stuff properly whilst listening to each other rather than trying to rewrite the fucking window manager for the bazillionth time.
This is a good move as it will make possible windows users to find out what life is not only without walls but without windows that only let you see where you want to go (but you can't get there from behind a windows). Linux the great glass cutter. I might even take the course and I've been using linux for quite some time now.
Download Linux. Use "man" or "the internet" to do something.
Using any computer effectively has more to do with what one wants to accomplish and how well one understands what they want to accomplish. Without a purpose, an OS is useless. Practically speaking, using an OS simply for the sake of an OS makes little sense.
If you want to pay $2400.00 to learn Linux and have no idea what you what you want to do with Linux once you learn it, just send me a check right now.
"Linux is an amateur knock-off of UNIX."
Are you deliberately trying to subvert Open Source from the inside?
Shit, there's been an intro to Linux course out for free for, like, 14 years now: it was written to be self-guided. I know this because, well, I wrote it.
As this linked to a .doc , I thought you were trying to be funny. Then I saw that it was not your doing, somehow.
But it sounds great. Could you not upload it to a web site somewhere in a non-MS format, to put it back to use again?
The course signup page requires permissive cookie and javascript browsers setting ... which settings I would not allow to John-the-Baptist should he return with a water-sprinkler. Can't MIT like any self-respecting nerd write a C-code front-end for class/student interaction, get it "validated" & and pass-it-off for DLoad to Ubuntu ?? Too bad.
not trying to bash Linux but I remember when I downloaded a program tar.gz or tar.bz2 file. I never heard of a tar file until I tried playing with Linux. I unzipped the gz file and found a tar file. I double clicked it thinking it was the setup program. then I finally figured out how to unzip the tar file. afterwords, I found a bunch of source code. Didn't know what to do with it because I was expecting an setup.exe file. lol
oh, and I had to unzip the file using tar -zxvf in a command prompt that looked like MS-Dos back from the 1990s. ./configure
make
su
make install
at least Linux comes with a compiler unlike Windows.
guess Linux is still for geeks. guess things have changed now: Maybe I download a self-extracting and installing executable program that I can double-click from the download folder.
For a course that is nothing more than an 'Introduction' to Linux?
I remember a fellow years ago that offered an expensive 'study at home' course on Solaris, but his price was well under $2,400 and he actually included a complete Sun workstation with the course...
Ken
No, he was making the point that the command line is an incredibly powerful interface. If there is one thing that Unix excels at above all else, it is the manipulation of text. The individual tools are all the product of many years' refinement, but more importantly they all are designed to accept text as input and to output text. As much of the system as possible is designed to have a textual interface, even the text editors. You can script them, too, if you like.
That's partially where open source started, with the expectation that all parts of your system were open to manipulation. It's your system -- why wouldn't you have the source to code on your system?
I digress. Open source was not the subject of discussion, it was the utility of the CLI. Microsoft has chosen to have a crippled interface, but when you consider that entering CLI commands is very little different from scripting them, and that scripting is likewise indistinguishable from actual programming, it is clear that there is an incomparable freedom for the user to effect his system. It just requires that you drop out of social activities, develop a beard and an unhealthy pallor, and take to muttering under your breath how you could have done that a lot faster with sed.
use Linux!