[cobalt-users] OT - Training advice requested

["Dana Millaway" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all.  I just got back from a meeting with my superintendent where he
gave me the go ahead to get training on Linux.  Yahoo.  

I have appreciated all the help the users here have given me but I really
don't like having to ask so many questions, especially the basic stuff.  So,
can you recommend a place to get intensive, hand-on Linux training,
preferably in or near Minnesota?  

I have been doing online tutorials but I never get to stay at them long
enough to retain what I am learning.  I would like to go somewhere away from
my work and family for a few days so I can concentrate on learning.  I can
probably get the superintendent to let me attend up to two 1 week classes if
he is convinced they are really good classes.

I need to, at a minimum, learn how to install and configure workstations and
servers, how to set up and administer users and groups, how to set up access
rights for directories and files and how to keep my system up to date and
secure.

We currently have a Qube 3 and a white box running Slackware that is
supposed to be a proxy/filtering server, and I am considering converting a
lab of PII/266's to some flavor of Linux, so I will have machines to work
with to remember what I learn.

Dana S. Millaway
District Technology Coordinator
Holdingford Public Schools