[CentOS] Good book on Linux Admin (Centos 5.5)

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:

> I'm not sure how someone starting today would find the core tool set 
> (which is almost unchanged today except for the GNU options on some 
> commands and the addition of perl) or where to start with 
> man/google.  Or if these even matter any more now that there are 
> monolithic GUIs to do most common operations and computers are fast 
> enough to run them.

A low barrier to entry is great for development and testing but 
horrible for production.

A GUI or other framework that can assist getting a service up and 
running quickly is a great help; the developer or admin and his 
customer(s) can quickly understand its applicability to the task at 
hand.

Moving that service into production, however, requires a different 
understanding: risk assessment, scalability, configuration boundaries, 
etc. The rapid-development tool rarely provides such insight, with 
predicatable consequences in production.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/