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

Thu Mar 6 14:28:07 UTC 2008
Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca>

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 license and pretty innovative.
> 
> :-O
> 
> Solaris/OpenSolaris comes with GREAT documentation. The only problem is 
> reading through them. There is a lot of it!
> 
> I suggest taking things one step at a time. Don't try to go through the 
> documentation all at once. Just look it up when you need to do a step on 
> Solaris be it setup a interface or a nfs share and then repeatedly do 
> that. Say ten times on day one. Then 5 times two days later. Once more a 
> week later. Hopefully you get to do the same procedure once in a while 
> afterwards. If all else fails, just hit the documentation.
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/
> 
> Links to System Admin/Storage/Security/younameit on the left. They are 
> all downloadable so that you do not have to read them on sun's website 
> and they are available in pdf should you fancy printing them out.
> 
> This are also the opensolaris mailing lists.

Oh, great,  any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX)