Linux Training at the University of Namibia

Linux Training

Last week I attended three training sessions in setting up and administering a Linux server environment. It was really enlightening to work with the Linux operating system after having so long been a slave to the Windows Corporation. Linux (for the most part a free operating system) is a viable option for resource scare communities in Africa. Most of the attendees were from the public sector where resources can be very thin.

Our instructor Nicholas Kimolo was from Kenya. He was employed by the Commonwealth of Learning to give the seminar. Nicholas works with a consulting firm in Kenya (Circuits and Packets Communications) that makes most recommendations towards implement UNIX and Linux based systems.

The training was at the other major University here, the University of Namibia. The campus is located on the ourskirts of Windhoek. It really was quite a nice campus and reminds me of the York University campus in Toronto. It was a real campus community with very little else nearby. Enclosed are a few pictures of the campus.

I dropped by the University of Namibia’s visual arts centre to see what the Namibian art students had come up with. I was quite impressed with the work being done there. I now wish I have taken a few more photos but I suppose I can return again.