Mine the Harvest

My Cisco instructor at St. Pete College also teaches the A+ classes there. He knows of my interest in Linux and that my job is primarily *nix based and asked if I would teach a class for his A+ students studying the Operating Systems portion of their curiculeum. He’s a great guy and I have really enjoyed his Cisco classes so I thought this would be a fun thing to do for his A+ guys.

I have not done any teaching for a few years, but really looked forward to the opportunity. It was just a one night class to introduce the students to Linux and how it can assist technicians in diagnosing and addressing common PC issues. There are some fantastic linux tools for data recovery, password resets and hardware analysis which are available on live CDs such as Ubuntu that are perfect for PC techs. Plus it makes them look like Uber-geeks.

We had a great time and I really enjoyed introducing new people to the Path of the Penguin. Many of them had never used Linux at all, so it was a definite change for them.

Here is the  wiki article I wrote for the class and for the students to reference.

Had a great time and I think we will  do it again for the next class next semester.

Power to the Penguin.