Free Software Experience
Well my favourite Free Software Experience would have to be
SAMBA+PERL+PHP+Apache.
These have saved my bacon so many times I can't count.
The set was installed at work by a wandering minstrel (read: helpful
contractor) in an otherwise completely Windows shop.
I have upgraded the set and expanded it on our Unix servers; the upgraded
SAMBA was a cinch to install and very easy to configure (provided you have
SWAT going); PERL has given me an excellent development platform to hack
around in; PHP has given me "quick fixes" that would be otherwise painful;
Apache has now enabled us to "publish" the outputs from our department
thereby saving an awful lot of walking round the different factory plants.
The software suite has enabled me to administer filesystems in an
unbelievably heterogenous environment; Windows users don't complain any more
and that suits me fine!
And if things don't work? Ah, I can read the source, can't I !
Oh book preference: Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide
So maybe I will remember where RH (Linux) puts things as distinct from Sun
(Solaris) or SGI (IRIX).
Cheers,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator
Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 15:54
> To: Penguinillas
> Subject: [SLUG] Crazy Book Review Action!
>
>
> SLUG Book Review Madness
>
> Calling all literary (and illiterary) SLUGgers: McGraw-Hill
> Publishers have
> been kind enough to send us some more books for review!
>
> They know who to come to for the REAL DEAL... the LONG and
> SHORT... and
> McGraw-Hill knows who WEARS the PANTS. That's why they came to SLUG.
>
> Up for review are...
>
>
> * Linux - The Complete Reference (4th Ed):
>
> Covers RH7, Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 (winner of
> dumbarse distro name
> award three years running) and SuSE 7.0
>
>
> * Linux for Windows Addicts:
>
> "A 12-Step Program for Habitual Windows Users"
>
>
> * Linux Programming, A Beginner's Guide:
>
> Bash, TCSH, Perl, Tcl/Tk, GAWK, GNOME, KDE...
>
>
> * Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide:
>
> You might want to review this if you're going for an RHCE soon. :)
>
>
> Please email back to the list with:
>
> - Your favourite Linux or Free Software related quote.
>
> OR
>
> - Your favourite early Free Software experience (a good one
> for newbies).
>
> You should also include the title of the book you want to review. The
> judge's decision will be final, and any sucking up will be taken into
> account in a completely unfair manner.
>
> - Jeff
>
> --
> "2.4.1ac17 is full of innovations and should be used with
> caution."
> - Linux Weekly News
>
>
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