Here are some really good tutorials on linux: This first one is probably one of the better ones:
http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz There is a pdf download at the top left corner of the page. The LInux documentation has a ton of info on everything: http://tldp.org/ Check out the Linux Reality podcast. It's really good. There are about 100 podcast about 1/2 hour long that give you basic startup tutorial on many SysAdmin tasks. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/linuxreality This is the Linux System Administrator's Guide. It's a little outdated, but there is nothing in this book that will not be good basic overall learning of Linux. The following is a heavy duty and pretty comprehensive guide for SysAdmins: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html Here is an administrators guide that may be a little more light duty: http://tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/index.html Here's a really good book on the Linux Kernel. It's 2.4, but much of it still applies: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lki/index.html Here's a How To for Mail Server: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html Here's a Printing HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html Here is a flilesystem Hierarchy Standard. If in case some day you want to understand filesytem Hierarchy Standards: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Here's a network administrators guide: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html Here's a little tutorial for building and Installing Software packages for linux: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html Here's a couple of links that were posted to the list recently for shell scripting links, they will come in handy: http://houcemhachicha.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-top-ten-shellbash-tricks.html http://www.shell-fu.org/ and of course, here is the linux from scratch website where you will find a wealth of information: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/essential_prereading.txt my suggestion is that you download the LFS book pdf, and as you read through it, go to all the reference material and learn about what you don't understand as you go along. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html As others said before, start out small. Start with something that interests you (especially a technology that is in high demand in the field) and install it and work it and break it. You learn by breaking it and fixing it. My suggestion is that you get a box with at least two HD's so you can implement raid and run a virtual server in it, because virtual server is pretty much essential for SysAdmin these days. Load and implement a mail server as some have suggested, because every business network is gonna want a mail server. Install a DNS, a Web server with all the essentials (MySQL, Postgre, php, pearl,python, Apache, Tomcat, ) File Servers, Version Control, Windows Networking (Samba, or etc.) and last but not least backups. With out desiring to beat a dead horse, start out small and build on that, as some have said before. Start out by installing a virtual server, and the four things you should learn first are VS, Mail server, Web Server and Backup. 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