Re: Resources for learning Linux
On Mon, Apr 26 at 17:01, Curt Howland penned:
>
> On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey <jhstuckey@gmail.com> was
> heard to say:
> > I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a
> > better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to
> > see if I have learned a lot of the things that might be taught in
> > a university-linux/UNIX course.
>
> Install Sid (Debian Unstable) and maintain it over the course of a
> few years.
>
> Debian administration, one random problem at a time. :^)
>
> That's how I did it.
This gets my vote. I did take a systems programming class that guided
me into reading man pages, but that was about it*. A Linux/Unix class
sounds more vocational than conceptual (but I have antiquated notions
about the purpose of college/university courses).
They used to say - you're not a real linux admin until you've
completely borked your system and had to wipe and reinstall from
scratch at least once. Not too long ago, I was at an office supply
store wearing a tee shirt with a Linus quote. The quote was something
like, "The linux motto is 'live dangerously.' No, no - 'Do it
yourself.' That's it." Anyway, the clerk at the store enthused to me
about Debian, but was baffled by the quote. This is when I realized
that linux really had become user friendly (for some values of
"user"), and I wasn't entirely sure I was happy about it =P
* Not that I'm a sysadmin per se. I run a debian headless server for
my own purposes, so there are certainly large gaping holes in my
knowledge, but I like to think that I could do whatever I wanted to
with the system if I were sufficiently motivated.
--
monique
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