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

[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 different from everything else. 

Ok

> Until recently I was a lead over a 8 person Unix admin team and our policy was 
> to always hire people with little experience and then move them up as they 
> learn stuff. 
> 
> I usually started them on Solaris 9. It is the closest to Linux (which most 
> had experience with). Then we went on to Solaris 10 - SMF and so on are a big 
> step forward but you will still find a ton of pre Sol10 out there, so if you 
> don't have Solaris 9 or prior experience, you're not quite there. 

Ok, what about opensolaris?  Is

> 
> Then, the next step is HP-UX. You can get a C3xx0 or J6xx0 on ebay for little 
> money these days. PA-RISC is dead, but once the OS is booted, there aren't 
> that many differences between running on Itanium or PA-RISC. 
> 
> Finally, if they got that far, we would add some AIX. AIX is very different 
> from what you would expect in a Unix flavor, ODM and all, but then again, 
> Solaris 10 has moved quite a bit away from being a traditional Unix too. 
> 
> Peter.

Thanks for your great advice,
Ugo