Linux Introduction

[JP Jamous]

Thank you so much for your responses. I have been a Windows platform
administrator for the last 12 years.

Is there a certain book or site recommended to learn the shell commands?

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Jason White
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:11 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Linux Introduction

John G. Heim <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>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).

Knowing the shell very well is a prerequisite to being a competent and
effective Linux user, and even more so for anyone who wants to administer
systems for other people, professionally or otherwise.

Speakup would be a good starting point, since it has very few dependencies
and can run even when large parts of the system are unavailable - precisely
the situations in which an administrator's skills are put to the test.

I would suggest learning to use the shell and Linux tools as a user first,
proceeding thereafter to acquire administrative skills.


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