Monday, May 19, 2008

*NIX Academy

UNIX (since 1969) and Linux (since1991) have been around for a long time, but only
recently have they started to become a threat to the Microsoft reign. Unix and Linux
have similar properties but the biggest difference is that Linux is FREE (no license fee)
version - including source code - that is being widely implemented around the world. Yet
so many people do not understand this powerful operating system. While there are
many companies producing Linux distributions, there is nobody training people in how
to become fully qualified Linux professional and administrator of ALL aspects of using
and working with Linux. *NIX Academy is proposing to offer exactly that, a course that
will train people how to become fully qualified Linux professionals and administrators.
*NIX Academy has been established to help prepare students to learn Linux from the
bottom to the top. Not just learn to install it, but how to develop, program, compile and
use Linux. It's not enough to know how to install Linux from a distribution, but we need
to learn how to work with the roots of Linux.
After finishing this program student should be able to create a Linux distribution for any
specific task (router, web server, desktop, cluster , etc), to be able to maintain,
troubleshoot and administrate those systems and any other vendor distribution. They
will be able to grow and adapt with Linux systems. Training is going to be vendor
neutral.