I really like the idea.  Some additional suggestions that I think should at least be covered at a high level ... as they are foreign concepts if coming from a Windows only world:

*  Obvious commands for help, but not if you're noob:  info info &/or man man ... and other basics of bash
*  Why and how sudo & sudo su
*  Overview of must know (they exist) utilities:  man, top, nano, w, tar, ps, df/du, find, grep, sed/awk, etc.
*  Common gotchas: How to close man, vi, etc, and other weird linux keystrokes. How to use fg if you hit CTRL-Z to "undo" then shell program seemingly exits. (common in nano/vi).
*  File systems & fstab overview PLUS mounting local partitions / network drives (sshfs or gvfs)
*  Basics of backups + recovery (both server / desktop as strategies might differ).


Take what you like, leave what you don't, but hope it helps!


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
It sounds like this would be relevant to any type of new admin, whether
they had windows backgrounds or not.  Would this be a class, or a
standard session track that one could come in and out of through out the
weekend?

I assume this would be in addition to the existing desktop training class?

On 3/15/13 3:20 PM, Orv Beach wrote:
> We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training
> track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System
> Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the
> necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a
> couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
>
> Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
>
> - samba (client & server)
> - NFS (server)
> - All about SSH
> - user & group administration
> - software installation and patching
>
> ? - basics of BIND
>
> Your suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
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