Free Training Webinars For Linux Professionals

The Linux Foundation has announced a free Linux Training Webinar Series that will enable attendees to learn the fundamentals of Linux directly from the source of Linux, the developers themselves.

“The Linux Foundation’s Training Program connects developers and users with the rock-stars of Linux in a vendor-neutral forum to expand the talent pool for Linux,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “All industry research points to the fact that demand for Linux talent is outpacing the supply. Our training program helps this by providing highly-technical training that provides job seekers with the skills they need to both grow their careers and advance the increasingly competitive Linux platform.”

The webinar series will feature Linux Foundation technical advisory board (TAB) members and other community developers. This webinar series complements the expanded Linux Foundation training program that now spans the globe with classes in Boston, London, Ottawa, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

The Linux Foundation is also today publishing its Winter/Spring 2010 course catalog, which comprises a variety of ways to train, including classes co-located with the organization’s 2010 events (such as the Collaboration Summit and LinuxCon, among others). New course offerings available from the community’s leading technical talent include embedded Linux; Linux device drivers; Linux kernel internals and debugging; application development for Linux; performance and tuning; and Git essentials.

The first Webinar in the series is “How To Contribute to the Linux Community,” led by Jon Corbet, and available March 1. The free Linux training webinar series features notable technical leaders from the Linux community. Confirmed webinars include:

• “An Introduction to Git,” by kernel maintainer and TAB chair James Bottomley;
• “Linux System Troubleshooting and Tuning” and “Linux Administration 101,” by Linux author and community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier;
• “How to Work with the Linux community,” by LWN.net editor and kernel developer Jon Corbet;
• “A Linux Filesystem Overview,” by kernel developer Christoph Hellwig;
• “Btrfs: An Intro and Update” to the new file system for Linux, by project lead and TAB member Chris Mason; and
• “Linux Performance Tuning,” by North America’s first kernel developer Ted Ts’o.

To register, please visit: http://training.linuxfoundation.org.