Re: I am interested in Linux Admin, wanted to self learn, what are important things in Admin?
From: Pugilis T. Master (guroove_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/27/05
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:54:21 -0400
Keith Keller wrote:
>>which
>>Distribution is better for Server side as well as Client side
>>(especially for small businesses point if view).
>
>
> If 30 people post their answer to the above question, you'll likely get
> 35 different answers. To the experienced admin they're all more similar
> than they are different.
>
> --keith
>
The fact that there will be many differing replies to this does not make
the question invalid. If you are speaking strictly from the point of
view of getting hired as a sysadmin, Red Hat ES and Debian the most
important distro to know for servers. My experiences with RHEL have not
been so great, but I was administering a leased machine in a colo
facility to which I had no physical access, and I think that I was not
using a fresh install or someone had really messed up the install image.
As for client machines, I have found Fedora Core 3 to be excellent for
people who are used to windows XP or Mac OS X. It also is very easy to
set up and detects and supports various hardware pretty well. It is
bloated, however IMO, and I find it slow on machines with less than 384
or 512 Mb of ram. In the business world, It would be Red Hat WS or
Suse/Novell professional. A lot of people like Ubuntu, but I have never
tried it.
As far as learning is concerned, the Red Hat products are fairly
indistinguishable from one another. It's all a matter of what you choose
to install. Make sure you can do anything from the command line, and
with no physical access to your machines. You will probably want to
learn the differences between Red Hat, Debian, and Suse, if you are
looking to do this for a living. It might also be a good idea then to
learn FreeBSD, Solaris, and possibly even Slackware especially if you
work under a senior admin who is a real linux guru. True gurus tend to
love Slack and a lot of people swear by FreeBSD for servers. I used to
run FreeBSD on my servers but I have recently discovered Arch which is a
very fast and nice distro for servers, although I have not worked with
it long enough to make the GUI as nice as Red Hat. I know that a lot of
these operating systems are not linux, but linux after all is not the
only kernel out there.
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