On 10/29/2016 11:50 AM, emetib wrote: > have been a linux only person since before 2000 (late 2.2 early 2.4 > kernels), yet haven't done much with it in the last ten years. ...
> i'm looking at getting back into it and into pen > testing. I assume you mean penetration testing. Given that computers and networks are built from many hardware, firmware, and software work products, I would expect that there are specialties. It might help to pick one, and then find the knowledge and skill dependencies. > from what i have been reading lately i'm going to have to know quite > a bit about a couple of different things that i didn't jump to deep > into before, programming and networking especially. ... > i have given myself a four year window on this learning cycle and am curious about going about it. ... > please just give advice and not right or wrong opinions on what i > maybe trying to do with my options and if i should actually take some > classes to augment my self learning. If you are serious about this, go get yourself a degree in computer science. I preferred and recommend the old-fashioned university approach -- professors, planned sequence of courses, classrooms, labs, textbooks, homework, projects, and especially the camaraderie of other students. David
