Online school for FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote:

> I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've been
> trying to learn on an off for years but when it starts getting complicated,
> I get stuck. The handbook don't do allot of good.

Check out http://www.bsdcertification.org/
 
> My goal is simply this. I want to open a small business, A server, To lease
> out web space, domains, etc etc. I want to start small and possibly expand
> to a rack of servers and so on.

If you are new to FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems, you should not begin with
starting a business! Learn something about the OS first.

Install FreeBSD om your computer and experiment with it. Subscribe to the
freebsd-questions mailing list and read through the archives of that mailing
list. Install and configure typical server programs; apache, bind, postfix,
mysql. Learn about jail(8). Do read the handbook, because it does contain a
lot of useful information.

> I've been searching all say and cannot find ANY online schools that teach
> FreeBSD.  

Personally, I learned first Linux and then FreeBSD by just installing and
using them. I think a lot of people start that way.

You can download the book "The Complete FreeBSD" from
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/

> But I need to know the ground up. I don't want to trust an
> employee with root access to my server.

If you have a hosting business, clients might expect support 24 hours a day, 7
days per week. No single person can manage that!

Roland
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