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| urbman 2003-06-09, 2:41 pm |
| I am just about done with my MCSE and my boss tells me that we are going to be setting up a FreeBSD box for our new webserver. We are getting free support for a year but I don't have any experience with the OS. I know there isn't much out there for certification but Linux+ seems to be fairly close. I don't need to know all the nuts and bolt right away but I would like to get familiar with navigating around in the OS. Is this going to be useful for me? I have also take a Unix system administration class at a local college but that is all theory and no hands on. | |
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| no it won't be.
what good is a cert going to do you in your case? you need to know how to get a freebsd box up, how to administer it, and how to run apache, administer it, the ins and out of it... not a paper certifying you know some minimum requirement about linux.
http://www.freebsd.org/
procure a cheapo machine, have your boss pay for it, $100 bucks or so... or do it yourself because you want to excel at your job, even at your cost.
install it on that box, install apache, perhaps mysql? or whatever your company had decided to do with that box... your experimental box may not be as powerful, but you want to be sure that you can function on it so install it and treat it like it is the real one... learn where the log files are etc etc.
read the handbook on the site.
go buy a book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...9220486-1230548
apache. http://www.apache.org/ lots of books on apache also.
do what you need to get the job done... cert is uselesss. you have a specific goal (ie, company need a freebsd box running as a web server). target your learning to meet that goal. | |
| Boulware5 2003-06-09, 3:47 pm |
| Agreed. Getting a cert, especially L+, will be totally useless in your case. Just learn and practice FreeBSD, why waste your time with a certification. And besides, I guarantee that if you do pass Linux+, you will NOT know how to set up a BSD box with Apache. There are some differences between Linux and FreeBSD (actually probably more than "some"). The only thing you will learn about Apache if you study for Linux+ is that Apache is the Linux/Unix web server and that is it. It doesn't even touch upon installing/configuring. Remember, Linux+ is entry level. Learn apache, learn FreeBSD but definately don't study for Linux+ to accomplish this goal. | |
| urbman 2003-06-09, 6:12 pm |
| I hear what you are saying, however being that I have no experience I figured it would get me some. The differences between freebsd and linux aren't that great. I am not looking to just have a piece of paper. I also don't want to try to master something that I truly don't understand that throughly. I have a book, Linux administration for beginners. I should be done with that well before the class I am interested in comes up. I can always make my decision later. Thanks for the input. | |
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| Boulware5 & mikop pretty much gave you the straight of it.
FreeBSD is a real close Unix clone.
Linux is enough different, you will only confuse yourself if you are trying to apply quite a bit of how Linux does things to FreeBSD
Plus -
It does a quite a few things differently.
It names some things differently.
Things are in different places.
Installing it is quite different from a Linux install
Get a cheep box & do as Boulware5 & mikop recomended.
Load & Configure it / Play with it / break it / fix it
You'll learn more doing that with a book open next to you than anything else.
And learn the tools it has once you have the instalation part down pat. |
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