I am a windows/as400/cisco/motorola system admin who finally decided to pick up linux and REALLY try and learn it. By the way the power and flexibilgy of Linux rocks, and I REALLY like the fact that I can teach my self all kinds of stuff with out having to purchase some super expensive developer pacakage (Microsoft Visual Studio). Anyways back to the topic. I am trying to find out a few good projects I can do to my home machine to learn linux form a system adminstrator point of view. So far I have a Centos box here at work with Apachee/Snort/MySQL/Base loaded up, and a Red Hat 9 box at home. My home machine is a true lab box as in I can crash it and I won't loose sleep. As far as reading materials I have the "Introduction to Linux" PDF found all over the internet, and Red Hat 9 unleashed. I have also put Cygwin on my win box at work so I could get mor comfy with the shell.
As far as future projects, I figured I would start by setting up Apachee/Coppermine/MySQL (or use Gallery) to set up an internet site with a buch of photos since I like to tinker with photography when not riding mountian bikes or doing system admin type work. I also figured I would teach myself PERL so I can do some administrative type scripting on my Linux boxes. Is PERL the way to go? I ask this because Windows, which I am most familiar with, allows you to script in a few languages (java, vbscript, and others if you install add ons). Sorry if this post sounds really "newbieish" but I don't really have many folks to talk to about Linux as I am an army of one at work when it comes to operating systems and networks. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks! Chad -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
