[TriLUG] Linux tutorial recommendations

[Jim Ray]

Awe, shoot.  Now, I'm gonna have to run out and buy a book:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/index.html

Regards,
 
Jim
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of
> jonc at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:34 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Cc: Jeremy Portzer
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux tutorial recommendations
> 
> 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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