From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linda Walsh Subject: Re: Why should we teach students Linux?? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:20:19 -0800 Message-ID: <45EDF733.3000407@tlinx.org> References: <45ECC116.3000608@rcn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Roel Bindels Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org How about instruction on how linux can be configured as a router or firewall or invisible proxy...various network tasks? Can also run various inexpensive network server functions: samba(cifs/smb), squid(reduce network traffic or as accelerator for websites)...tons of usages in a network. It's an all purpose "swiss army knife". You can examine the various network layers, support for various networked file systems. How can you setup a small departmental cifs/smb/nfs and printer server with linux? How about recreating "Google?" Don't they use linux to create their portal/indexing? How to create a high-performance computing cluster on your network? Is that the type of stuff you are looking for? -linda Roel Bindels wrote: > > knows a link/document about why we should educate our students in the > Linux OS, please send it. Or article about the usage of Linux in > company's. > > In my original post I explained this: > I'm tutor on the Faculty ICT, department NID. This is a bachelor degree > and we are preparing our students to become something more then just > System Administrators (such as manager, consulting, etc....). > > (NID stands for Network Infrastructure Design.) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs