Dear All,
The Topic of learning w.r.t UNIX and Linux Operating
systems all depends on study material used and the
instructer teaching them. It does not matter how much
documentation giving same depth but definetly
documents showing how well each feature or possiblity
is or can be used.
Regards
Vishwesh
--- Shinose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Nadeem M. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/15/07, Dirk Tilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > In my opinion the best lesson you can give your
> students is to teach
> > > them how they find documentation and help for
> any problem by examples.
> > > And how they can have fun doing it. And show
> them that a good learning
> > > playground is having such a system for
> themselves and using it for
> > > something... watching movies ...writing mails
> ...having their own
> > > webserver. Something they like and have fun
> with.
> > >
> > > Maybe you have a screwed up Linux system
> somewhere in your college?
> > Best
> > > starting point. Clean it up without
> reinstallation using documentation
> > > sources in the Internet.
> > >
> >
> > Talking of documentation, Linux is lucky enough to
> have tons of it on
> > the web. A cheap Linux box, documentation, and a
> strong desire to
> > master it is enough for one to become an effective
> sys admin.
> > You could follow the three tier path that RH
> follows.
> > L1 - RHCT - Daily management tasks, backups, basic
> networking services.
> > L2 - RHCE - Troubleshooting, security and advanced
> networking services.
> > L3 - RHCA - Clustering and very advcanced
> security.
> >
> > Other nixes like Solaris or AIX are not so easy to
> learn. In my case,
> > I am slogging it out for my IBM AIX certification
> because we don't
> > have a full fledged test server and AIX doesn't
> run on intel boxes.
> > AIX documentation however is abundant in the form
> of great IBM
> > Redbooks. Solaris is easier to learn than AIX but
> difficult than
> > Linux. Perhaps thats why Solaris/AIX admins are
> paid more.
> >
> > Anyway, mastery of any one Unix makes it very easy
> to learn others. Me
> > already being an RHCE has made it relatively easy
> for me to handle AIX
> > compared to others who started their Unix careers
> on AIX. Apart from
> > package management, volume management and location
> of config files,
> > every thing else is pretty much the same.
> >
> > Regards,
> > NMK.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi... Does anyone need embedded Linux ideas... :-)
>
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