Paragon Solutions, Inc. Releases Linux Web-Based Training Courses.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 To meet the needs of technical programmers and administrators who are moving toward Linux, Paragon Solutions, Inc. announces the availability of Web-based training courses, Learning Linux Essentials and Networking Linux. Designed for adoption by Linux vendors, resellers, and trainers, these courses were developed in conjunction with O'Reilly & Associates, the most respected publisher of Linux and Open Source information. Janet Lowe Janet Celesta Lowe is a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico United States. Lowe formerly was business editor of the San Diego Tribune (now Union-Tribune) and editor of the San Diego Daily Transcript. , Paragon's Vice President of Product Marketing says: "Industry analysts predict the growth rate for commercial shipments of Linux to exceed other operating environments In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. over the next three years. We will continue to create the highest quality courseware to support the growing Linux market. Our goal is to meet the high expectations of the greater Open Source community." "Like Unix, Linux is a robust, scalable, and reliable operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. ," says Brian Erwin, O'Reilly's Vice President of Business Development. "And, like Unix, Linux appeals to the serious technologist who likes being in control. It isn't for the faint of heart. Paragon's Web-based courses will accelerate the rate at which programmers and system and network administrators increase their comprehension." Learning Linux Essentials explains how Linux boots and starts services, how modules and devices are brought online, and the best way to add new daemons to a system. Guidelines are included for structuring drives and file systems and for improving the performance of heavily used systems. Networking Linux presents the fundamentals of local and wide area networks under Linux. It discusses the basics of setting up a network on a single client machine, as well as basic routing, gateways, and IP masquerading 1. (networking) masquerading - "NAT" (Linux kernel name). 2. (messaging) masquerading - Hiding the names of internal e-mail client and gateway machines from the outside world by rewriting the "From" address and other headers as the message leaves the . Each course contains structured learning modules, online chat and community capabilities, quality graphics, as well as online self-testing. About Paragon Solutions, Inc.: Paragon Solutions, Inc. provides software tools, Web-based courseware, course development services and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for creating corporate training solutions. Paragon's i-ACADEMY software addresses the total needs of an organization - from the rapid creation and organization of content, to deployment of high quality Web-based training, to the management of student, course and system-performance data. Paragon's packaged courseware, as well as its course development services, assists customers to create optimum training systems. About O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.: O'Reilly & Associates is recognized worldwide for its definitive books on Open Source software, the Internet, programming, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , and Unix. O'Reilly also produces award-winning Internet software, technical conferences, and innovative Web-based courses. From their pioneering bestseller The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. (designated one of 100 Books of the Century by the New York Public Library New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. ) to GNN GNN - Global Network Navigator (the first Internet portal and commercial Web site) to WebSite (the first Web server software for desktop PCs), O'Reilly has been at the forefront of Internet development. Further information on O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. products and services can be found at www.oreilly.com or by calling (800) 998-9938. |
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