Are the O'Reilly / Useractive Courses Any Good? 14
IronBlade asks: "Hi all, I'm very interested to hear if the O'Reilly / Useractive Linux/UNIX System Administrator courses are any good. There are 4 units, and as they are offering them in a package (4 for the price of 3) until -Feb 15th-, I'm very interested in your opinion as to their worth. I have previous sysadmin experience on GNU/Linux and feel I have a reasonable grasp of things, but I don't have any proof of my skills, and certificates from the University of Illinois would be a Good Thing to add to the CV."
University of Illinois (Score:3, Interesting)
Can I make a deal here? (Score:2, Funny)
I will let you know as soon as I get an answer from those O'Reilly guys..
expensive (Score:3, Interesting)
Doesn't anyone know of cheaper online courses elsewhere?
Not UIC... UIUC (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not UIC... UIUC (Score:1)
Oooops!
Not too familiar with US universities...
Developer Works LPI Cert Tutorials (Score:5, Informative)
They're written by Daniel Robbins of Gentoo fame and are quite good.
Finally, you'll have to register, sign away first born...
Re:Developer Works LPI Cert Tutorials (Score:1)
I've been reading through some of them, and even though I'm pretty familiar with the basics, I'm still picking up little things here and there.
I'm looking forward to going into them in more depth, and learning new things.
So, mainly due to the costs involved (US$1,200 vs ~US$400), I will focus on LPI, rather than the O'Reilly/Useractive offerings.
Taking the courses right now (Score:5, Informative)
You do get some free books, but they are not meant to be used in the course directly. I got Unix in a Nutshell about 2 months after I started Linux I.
I'm taking the courses because I want to get into Linux admin, learn a little more about what's going on under the hood of Mac OS X, and to make myself more marketable.
BTW, Safari 1.2 doesn't seem to like the website very much (logging in just returns to the logon page), so I use Mozilla for the website and Terminal.app for working.
UIUC is a top school (Score:2, Informative)