Linux/Unix in the classroom

[Travis Roy]

> Was this a college course?  My experience and second-hand knowledge
> (which obviously is not all-inclusive by any means) is that Intro to
> Unix courses at colleges don't involve installs.  And IMO, nor should
> they.  Installations are appropriate for intro sysadmin courses, but
> the average user will never do an install, and doesn't need to know
> how to do one.
The windows one was, the solaris one wasn't. But why shouldn't an intro
course have an install? The idea is to get people to use the operating
system they are learning about, and who is going to use something they
don't know how to install. Surely a modern linux dist like RedHat or
Mandrake is simple enough that anybody that can install windows should
be able to deal with.