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If a man walking along the street found a penny, picked it up, put it in his pocket, and was able to use his intellect and fortitude to double it to two pennies the next day, four pennies the following day, and so on, by the end of day twenty-seven, he'd have over one million dollars. By the end of thirty six days, that penny would have grown to over $687million. Not bad for using his mind. If you give these lessons the same amount of time, you might not have millions of dollars, but you will have something far more valuable -- knowledge and exposure to one of the most powerful operating systems ever created.

Please enjoy our free interactive education and training lessons. You may have to download and install a Flash plug-in if your browser does not already have one. Also, you may have to maximize your browser since some of these lessons are 800x600. Make sure your speaker is turned on so you can hear the narration. When you are ready to begin, move your mouse over to the menus on the left and select a lesson.

We recommend starting at the beginning and continuing down the list until you are satisfied. Each lesson depends on knowledge gained from the previous lessons, so it is recommend that you cover both vi lessons if you have not used vi before. If you have and feel comfortable, you can probably skip them both.

Also, it is highly recommended that you set up a secure tunnel between your desktop machine and the machine you are configuring. For Windows, you can accomplish this using the plink.exe binary that you picked up in the first lesson, or if you have a command line SSH client, you can use its tunneling options.

For StarOffice, be sure to take the install defaults if you are running this inside of a Solaris Zone. There is no need to do a full 300MB install, since the software is already part of the standard Solaris 10 install.

After the web-based pkg-get lesson, you may want to go back into your /etc/passwd file and change the shell back to /bin/tcsh since the user environments that we set up in the User Environment lesson are only for CSH or SH.