On 9/17/2010 8:18 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
hmmmm ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over thefreenx to an additional course dealing with networking/remote admin/etc. thanks.
I'd guess that for most people starting with linux, freenx with NX running on their existing windows/mac would be a much better fit. Maybe vmwware player or virtualbox too.
Oh, another thing - I've always thought that every course on unix-like systems should touch on what the fork() and open() system calls do, sort of like learning to count to 10 before memorizing math formulas. If you understand that every process except init is fork()ed from a running parent, that environment variables and open files are inherited (because the child/parent share the COW memory), and the security checks that happen in open(), you can pretty much deduce the rest of the system behavior (well, except for selinux...).