Re: Hot to be a Guru

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/29/03

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:55:53 -0500

    On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:05:46 +0000, Brendan Sleight wrote:

    > I think I am now past the newbie stage of a GNU/Linux
    > ? Debian user.
    >
    > I have been using a debian derivative Morphix
    > (http://morphix.sourceforge.net/), I have made a few
    > mini-mods, written some scripts and even used Linux in
    > a rack at work. I can hack a few C, C++ programs and
    > knock out some bash and perl scripts. These days I
    > pick up my very thumbed Unix beginners book less and
    > less.
    >
    > So what now, how do I make the step of next from being
    > a newbie to working towards Guru level.
    > * More, thicker, smaller font, expensive books.
    > * Outline tutorials
    > * Try kernel hacking, Linux from Scratch ?
    > * Just keep using/hacking it, you will learn whats so
    > much fun about ssh...
    > * Get work to pay for some courses, (Hotels included,
    > but no mini-bar, just foo-bar.)
    >
    > I would be interested in how other people have made
    > the step passed newbie.
    >
    > Nearest similar post:-
    > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200106/msg04174.html
    >
    > Regards,
    > Brendan - A-Want-to-be Guru - Sleight
    >

    Decide which area you want to tackle first, and then you can plan a path.
    Experience is the best teacher.

    For instance, if you want to learn about filesystems and drivers, read up
    on, say, ext2. Then design a filesystem of your own, write the supporting
    code and make it work.

    If you want to learn about NNTP, write a text-based news client.

    Write a web spider from scratch.

    Write a partition resizer that's better than parted (testing this could be
    dangerous, of course!)

    Write a program which can identify the file system type of an unmounted
    partition.

    Write a file compression program that compresses better than gzip and runs
    faster than bzip2.

    That's enough to keep you busy for a couple of years :) 

    -- 
....................paul
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