[TriLUG] Learing linux....good projects on my test box?

[Chad Thomsen]

Thanks.  I just had a windows box come in with a corrupt file thats
preventing it from booting.  May try and thow Knoppix at it so I can get to
that file.  More fun the booting into dos.  8-)

On 1/13/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cool man, welcome to the Linux pack.  There are tools in newer
> distributions
> past RH 9 that make life so, so much easier.  That said, there is
> something
> to be said about building packages "the old way" where when you attempt to
> install something from RPM but can't and you have to dig, dig, and dig
> somre
> more to figure out in what package "wtf.h" is located and how to install
> it.
>
> First thing I'd suggest with the home machine is upgraded to the latest
> Fedora core, if you want to stay with RedHatish Linux, or go with CentOS,
> or
> Debian sarge.  It might not even hurt to give FreeBSD or OpenBSD a slice
> of
> the HD to see how that side of the world lives.
>
> For projects start with the sql/php stuff, that is always fun, and maybe
> try
> to create a samaba shared drive.  After that try a domain controller
> maybe.
> There are so many cool things you can do with Linux it is hard to pick a
> good starting point.  Just make sure you download a "live" CD at some
> point
> too, Knoppix is my weapon of choice though a lot of people swear by Ubuntu
> Live.  Once you get the hang of Knoppix you won't know how you lived
> without
> it as a sysadmin.  Have a trashed system that you need to recover files
> from?  With Knoppix you just boot the CD, mount the harddrive by
> double-clicking on it then start the Samaba server.  From there you mount
> the drive that wouldn't boot across the network via the Samba box and
> volia!  You can back up the critical files from the machine and proceed to
> rebuilding all within 30 minutes.  It's sweet.
>
> Anyway, welcome.
>
> Greg
>
> On 1/13/06, Chad Thomsen <chad.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
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