Simple question to which I think there are no simple answers, but I'll take a stab at it. With Linux you will want to become somewhat familiar with the command line and a basic text editor like vi or vim (emacs if your so inclined, but the learning curve on it is rather large). This will save you from many a crisis when the GUI interface isn't available. I'd start with: 1. a book on shell programming like "teach yourself shell programming in 24 hours" - http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Shell-Programming-Hours/dp/0672323583/ref=dp_ob_title_bk 2. A book on Linux itself like "LPI Linux certification" http://www.amazon.com/LPI-Linux-Certification-Nutshell-OReilly/dp/0596804873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267679&sr=1-1#_ 3. A book on open source network administration like http://www.amazon.com/Administration-Prentice-Computer-Networking-Distributed/dp/0130462101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267946&sr=1-1#_ (this one is a little dated but something similar would be good). I have personally used all of the above resources and found them useful. YMMV. Play with a few distros, at least one RPM based like RedHat and one Debian based like Ubuntu and learn the software management tools. Play with user interfaces Gnome, KDE and a lightweight GUI like xfce. Here virtual machines (VMs) are your friend. I use VMware server which is free but somewhat old and has some issues, but there are others probably as good or better. Buy a big multicore 8GB+ memory machine and load it up with VMs - its all free as in no cost so the only limitation is your ability to absorb the content. There is a lot of information on Linux on the internet (an understatment) so just google Linux + "your topic" and you will find toms of information but beware that some of it will be out of date. The Linux Documentation Project www.tldp.org is a good place to start and each distro will have its own documentation and release notes which are usually woth a browse, and man pages are your friend too. I hope that gives you some ideas. Good luck with your quest to learn Linux. Taken in bite sized peices it can be a very reqarding experience.
Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Gilmour <stu...@stuartgilmour.com> Date: Monday, September 5, 2011 1:07 pm Subject: [clug-talk] n00b To: clug-talk@clug.ca > Hello, > > My name is Stuart and I just started to learn linux. I was just > wondering if anybody had any thoughts on where a good place to > start would be. (books, links, courses in the calgary area) I > have "googled" and read few a articles and lessons on the net > but there is so much to choose from. PS I am interested in > network administration. If that helps? > > Happy I found this group! > > Cheers, > > Stuart > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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