Linux Introduction

[John G. Heim]

I think you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. The only thing 
I'd add is that if you are getting into linux with the goal of ultimately 
finding a job as a linux systems administrator, you should eventually work 
toward learning the command line and you should ultimately end up using 
either fedora or debian (or both). Getting started with ubuntu or one of the 
other easier to use distros is probably the best plan because there is 
nothing worse than trying to learn both a new operating system and a new 
screen reader at the same time. That is a very difficult task.  So starting 
off with whatever is easiest is probably your best bet. I'm guessing that 
would be ubuntu but opinions may vary.

Anyway, probably the best linux related item you can put on a resume is 
knowledge of Red Hat and/or fedora. Second would be debian. Being able to 
use Thunderbird and Firefox in ubuntu might help a little but that's not 
really what employers are looking for.

I was actually a web programmer before I got my current job. I felt that web 
programming was a dying profession so I bought a used computer, put linux on 
it, and taught myself network, database, and web server administration. I'd 
have included email administration if i'd had any sense. I was able to go 
into job interviews and let them connect to this server and I even gave some 
of the people who interviewed me accounts on my machine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JP Jamous" <JP at Jepelsy.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: Linux Introduction


> Thank you all for your feedback. I have to say that this is a new area for
> me that I am exploring. I don't mind the command prompts, but I prefer the
> GUI, due to speed and ease of use.
>
> I am just wondering how much RAM and CPU power does Linux use? The servers
> that I would eventually like to install Linux on are P3 Xeon processors 
> with
> anywhere from 128MB of RAM up to 1GB.
>
> I am familiar with the history of Linux, but not the way it functions. I 
> am
> going to follow your feedback and give it a test drive. I just asked the
> above questions to be ahead of the game when I implement it. Thank you.
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