On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:50, Stephen Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have supported Microsoft products since 1992. I am now being asked > to support our first Unix box. Aside from the occasional install to > play around, I have ZERO Unix exposure. What training would you > request from an employer that wants me to branch out into Unix > support?
What distro? Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, or any of a hundred others? What functions is this box going to perform? Also, how do you feel you learn best? Some folks want a good book and a couple of machines, others want f2f classes, and some like online training. I have a fair amount of unix background (some Ubuntu, a smattering of CentOS, but mostly FreeBSD, which is definitely not Linux), and would for myself prefer a good book that is distro-specific, and however many machines needed to make a good lab to replicate the environment I'm going to support. Those machines might well be VMs on an ESXi box. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
