[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-7-2008 5:44 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Andreas Pedersen wrote: I'm also interested into learning more about other system as well, my question is what should I take a closer look in Solaris? Things like why people choose Solaris over Linux. Solaris puts a lot of effort into maint

Re: [CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Arremann
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Ok, what about opensolaris? Is OpenSolaris is the development branch of Solaris. Things like Project Indiana make it look a lot less like Solaris 9 and before do. Everything that is in Solaris 10 is in OpenSolaris plus a lot more - new package m

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Peter Arremann wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: Oh, great, any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX) If I were you, I would forget about AIX at least at the beginning until you are solid with Solaris and HP-UX. Yes, it has good market share, but it is too diffe

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Steve Huff wrote: On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? in addition to the other suggestions, i recommend a copy

Re: [CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Arremann
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Oh, great, any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX) If I were you, I would forget about AIX at least at the beginning until you are solid with Solaris and HP-UX. Yes, it has good market share, but it is too different from everything els

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Christopher Chan wrote: I recommend you installing OpenSolaris in a virtual or physical machine and build a labor environment. Yes. Buy study guides for Solaris certified System, Network and Security Administrator (for Solaris 10 boxes). OpenSolaris is released under an OSI approved licens