[TriLUG] Linux tutorial recommendations

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

The online Red Hat manuals are great... and the IBM site is also good, BUT nothing beats the OReilly book with the armadillo on the cover:
  Essential System Administration
This book will be the most valuable hard resource he will ever own.

Jon (Omygawd he recommended a piece of processed wood!) Carnes

---- Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote: 
> So it's been a while since I've been involved in teaching people Linux.
> We have a new employee at work who has little *Nix experience, but is an 
> experienced Windows administrator, and relatively clueful, so I don't 
> expect he'll have a hard time learning the basics.  But I'd like to help 
> him find some good self-study materials.
> 
> We don't need to teach him to become a fully competent sysadmin, but he 
> needs to be comfortable enough on Red Hat-style platforms to support a 
> web-based application.
> 
> Does anyone have any good self-study tutorials or recommendations? 
> What's the current "state of the art" ?  Or maybe a book recommendation?
> 
> We're primarily using RHEL 4 and 5, so the materials would need to 
> either be "distro-agnostic" or specific to RHEL... something too 
> specific to another distro would be too confusing.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Jeremy
> 
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