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| tech274 2002-06-08, 2:10 pm |
| I'm from a 2000 environment, just laid off.
While job hunting, I have noticed Unix as a skill employers are asking for.
Since I cannot do Unix at home, I am considering Linux. I have a 98 box on my network that could become Linux.
Dont want to waste my time or money.
My question is....Does Linux (Red HAt?) skils transfer to Unix in the same way that MSDOS skils,transferred to PCDOS and DRDOS?
Would an employer see Linux skills and equate them with Unix? Or are the 2 just to far apart?
Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated. | |
| Boulware5 2002-06-08, 2:35 pm |
| Why can't you do Unix at home? FreeBSD is Unix and it's great. Best of all it's free. As far as I know, Linux skills would translate to Unix skills.
If you want to give FreeBSD a try: http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=15 | |
| tech274 2002-06-08, 2:43 pm |
| Thanks
Heard of FreeBSD, but was not aware it is Unix.
I'll check it out. | |
| ccieToBe 2002-06-08, 2:54 pm |
| Yeah, once you know one Linux/Unix (on the command line, not using the GUI utlities), you know 90% of the others. Most of the differences that I've run into have to do with the filesystem layout. | |
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| i agree with ccieToBe about the differences
...if you decide to get a cert the only entry level is for linux (Linux+)
all the unix certs out there are more advance | |
| neuralfx 2002-06-09, 1:52 am |
| well the differences are not that big .. actaully the true differences are really only at a very technical/specific level of the os handles stuff .. in my opinion anyway .. Once you know one *nix .. you can usually figure out where the log files are kept in another =) .. which are kinda what the differences amount to ..
-neural | |
| tech274 2002-06-09, 3:24 pm |
| Thanks for the help.
Looks like I'll be hanging out in the Linux+ board/ | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-06-10, 7:00 am |
| I agree with everyone else on this one. Get used to the command line and you will know 80-90% of what you need to know to be a Unix admin. Most flavors have a specialized tools, but they are usually in addition to the more standard ones. File system layout may be slightly different, especially with regards to device management, and the options for common utilities may vary, but they are mostly the same. Solaris and the BSD family runs on Intel processors so you may want to look into those. BSD has the advantage of being free. Linux is usually the best to start with, however. |
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