Hi everybody,
I am dealing with computers since last 5 years. I am very confident of
loading, finetuning & trouble shooting of OS, Application Softwares etc in
Software.I can troubleshoot any Intel based machines and set them right in
Hardware.
I have hands on experience with Linux.I can load
Linux(Redhat,Slackware,SuSe, Caldera) and to a certain extent trouble shoot
Linux also. Now I would like to seriously take up System
Administration(Network Administration also)of Linux. I have good experience
of Window$ environment(window$ 98 & NT also). I was following PCQuest since
1993 and regularly following Linux in their magazines.Thanks to them now at
least I am capable of trying to learn the following:
Now I would like to learn the implementation of the following on my own.
Apache Web Server -including Virtual hosting
Samba Server (Connecting Window$ machines also)
NFS
Domain Name System & DHCP
Mail Server
Remote Booting
Proxy Server(Squid)
RAID with IDE Hard Disk Drives.
I know that most of the above will be loaded along with Linux. PCQuest has
covered all the above at different points of time and it has been well
documented also. But will the same work for the newer versions also(like
Redhat 7.0)? Any one good book for the above both as a ready reckoner and
with in depth coverage of the above topics.
Recently I had installed e-Desktop open Linux from Caldera and was really
surprised to see how easy it is as far as configuration of any thing is
considered mainly due to their superior Control Panel with which you can
virtually control everything. The same is not available in Rdhat Linux 6.2
Why is it so? I have read in PCQuest so many times that any Linux will vary
only in the installation part only, after that it is one and the same(more
or less) but i feel that e-Desktop Linux's Control Panel is the best & may
be RHL 7.0 's Control Panel has been improved to match Caldera's. Am I
right?
Finally to become a professional in Linux do you think knowledge of
programming language like "C" is a must and knowledge of shell programming
also necessary? I am not interested in doing any programming whether it is
in C or Shell programming. If it is necessary to what extent?
Thank you in advance.
Regards
R K Tenneti
Visakhapatnam
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