[hobbit] Hobbit being taught in college syadmin courses!

[Josh Luthman]

I'm very pleased to see both CentOS and Hobbit being used.  Very very cool
stuff =)  Thanks for letting us know!  Let's take over the rest of the world
next =)

I wonder how upset Quest is with this =)

On 1/30/08, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm happy to report that last week I was a guest speaker at MCC (Mesa
> Community College), located in Mesa, Arizona.  The class was CIS240DL -
> Linux Network Administration. During the 4 hour class, I gave a complete
> presentation on Hobbit, and the instructor and I helped the students install
> their own Hobbit servers and configure them to monitor services both on the
> server and some remote clients.  We had a couple of snags as all the
> workstations were CentOS, so we had to perform a few extra steps to get the
> prereqs, and battle SELinux :-)
>
> It seemed to go very well, and the students seemed impressed and pleased
> with Hobbit.  I think I may have even converted one experienced student who
> seemed to prefer Zabbix :)
>
> The instructor seemed to enjoy the presentation as well, and it looks like
> I will also be invited to a repeat performance for the CIS238DL Linux System
> Administration class.  He has also invited me to speak about Hobbit at the
> local LUG.
>
> So, just reporting that Hobbit is getting lots of exposure here in
> Arizona!  *Henrik, I hope you don't mind, but for my presentation I used
> the slides you have up on your site as a framework*. I made sure to credit
> you as not only the main author of Hobbit but as the source of the slides :)
>
> I encourage others to evangelize Hobbit wherever they can. In my
> experience a lot of people have not heard of it, and once they see it they
> are like "wow" and want to start using it.  The more the community grows,
> the better our chance of getting acceptance to the various distros, and more
> volunteers to help contribute code and ideas to help Henrik out.
>
> -Charles
>
>
>


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