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| mindmesh 2002-11-13, 8:47 pm |
| I'm in the process of building a New system. once I get it up and running I want to install Unix/Linux on this system. My intetions are to learn how to administer it. I'd like to eventually run my own Mail server and DNS server. Key word is EVENTUALLY. Which should I go with Linux or Unix and which version of them would you recommend. Keep in mind I'm a Newbie but I pick up quickly. Thanks  | |
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| the best is to get freebsd, but it is harder to learn.
dunno what your current skill level is. but to ease you into that I would say go with rh as you indicated that you have rhce on your radar.
there are plenty of books on both and also online documentation.
www.freebsd.org
www.redhat.com support/manual/document/whitepaoer etc
if you are completely new to this, I would say get a book like the redhat bible and work chapter to chapter following its exercise, these kind of book generally have a chapter on setting up some of the advance feature like http, dns, mail etc that are easier to obsorb as it is not too manual like. | |
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| I consider this a book intro book, cover most subject to get one comfortable with living with linux.
redhat bible
after the above book, this one is prolly neat. It cover a lot of the same material but more advance.
red hat network system administration
Once you move beyond these, you are well verse in setting up the basic services, then you need to move on to product specific documentation/books etc to fully configure/utilize it (bind/apache both have books on it by itself.) but I think they are worth the money/read. | |
| namrak 2002-11-13, 9:38 pm |
| Definitely agree with Mikop's assessment with the two books he recommended. The Red Hat Network and System Administration by T. Colings might be too big of a step if you're easing into the Linux arena, though the Red Hat Bible (such as the one for 7.2) is a great way to start.
I also recommend picking a distro you really want to work with. You're better off minimizing confusion variables when starting with Linux even though they all have the same underlying kernel. | |
| mindmesh 2002-11-14, 7:49 am |
| Thanks fellas. I was thinking about Redhat anyway but It seems to be going towards the M$ arena now and a way from the Stable OS. That made me uncertain if I should go with RH. I've also heard good things about FreeBSD. Thanks again for the Info.. |
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