- This is a handbook for professors and teachers who would like to teach their students about open source software.
Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be.
This course teaches the fundamentals of networking, what the TCP/IP protocol stack consists of and how the different layers of the network stack influence communication on a network. You will learn how Linux can be used as a router and the basic principles of digital encryption and digital signatures used to keep email secure. As well as how to set up secure connections between different Linux machines by using SSH.
- This short course about the marketing of Free Software. It gives the end user an opportunity to give something back to the open source community. The course is started by Catharina, one of the developers of Open-Of-Course . This course is available in English and Dutch. Have fun with it and feel welcome to add more tips to the forum!
Desktop Users Guide for Ubuntu.- Unix Tutorial
This course is an introduction to the basics of Linux and is meant for beginners. Lots of people still think that understanding Linux is difficult, or that
only experts can The goal of
this guide is to show people of all ages that Linux can be simple, fun
and used for all kinds of purposes.- The guide is
structured as a project that builds a small diskette-based GNU/Linux
system called Pocket Linux. - Linux guide for system administrators.
