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High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:3793947.tYE3eoOPhY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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>> New online class teaches basic Linux for free
>>
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>>| Germany-based LinuxBasics.org was founded in May of 2004.
>>| In addition to the courses, the site also provides
>>| tutorials and links to other sites that offer information
>>| needed to install and use Linux.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8400135171.html
>>
>> More of a self-taught and collaborative exercise, rather
>> than institutionalised.
>
> This is a good sign that there is greater interest in Linux.
> By being web based means that it will be easier to reach the
> masses, particularly students and working people.
>
It's a kind of step up from the Howtos, readmes, man-pages and so on,
and the O'Reilly books. Linux now needs to gain a new generation of
users and admins. Developers are coming along through the academic
systems, and the current generation of users and admins are mostly the
technical cognescenti who pre-date Windows themselves. There's a
generation in the middle who've missed out on this, but if the
up-and-coming users and admins are getting trained, and the old-timers
already know, then continuity of support and development for FLOSS will
be maintained.
An observation from attending many conferences on these areas: most
people are either 40+ or are 20-something. There are far fewer people
in their 30s, in my experience. They're the "windows" generation, and
they're being sandwiched by us older folk, and the youngsters.
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