[CentOS] I want an advice

[James Freer]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> On 13.02.2013 22:48, Bassem Sossan wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I've changed from Ms Windows 2008 R2 to CentOS 6 recently, and there
>> are
>> many aspects to learn in relation to command line ( Bash scripting,
>> package
>> system managing, file system and so on )...
>>
>> I need to apply as much as I can of Network Infrastructure knowledge (
>> DNS,
>> DHCP and Virtualization .... ) concepts using CentOS 6 GUI...
>>
>> I know that I must learn dealing with linux using command tools and
>> that
>> will come, but it has much more of time, so, Am I forced as a learner
>> to
>> follow command line tools before going to GUI or I can get a good
>> knowledge
>> and experience by implementing my skills on GUI  ?
>>
>> So sorry to pothering....
>>
>> All the best...
>
> My advice, forget about the GUI, go for cli directly.
> And if you want to get serious about Linux, wipe out your current
> desktop Windows install and replace it with CentOS, force yourself to
> use it daily; I can't recommend this enough.

Linux is a different world to windoze as folk are fond of saying. My
advice would be get hold of a spare pc to learn on and make mistakes
before trying to use it as your main pc. With linux you need to be
proficient on the cli rather than gui. It doesn't matter which distro
you start with as i'd advise you use the spare pc to experiment fully
with - but you need to decide on either the debian or rpm distro
families. While there are many distros there are only a few i'd use
and that depends on the repos, maintainers/developers, package
management i.e. i'm interested in what's 'under the bonnet' not what
apps they might ship with the liveCD.

james