On Mon, February 9, 2015 3:28 pm, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2015-02-09, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 11:12 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/9/2015 11:06 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>>> > The third item was a 16.1 MB PDF of 1,344 pages. A quick scan of the
>>> PDF
>>> > shows every page appears to be readable. 11 pages devoted to BASH.
>>> > Information on other interesting topics too.
>>>
>>> on a site hosted in Russia which appears to be FULL of copyright
>>> violations.
>>
>> Probably not really a software pirate but an individual (and a keen
>> cyclist) storing some old-ish PDFs on his own web site.
>
> The PDF *itself* is still pirated. It has nothing whatsoever to do with
> "software" piracy.
>
>> So there is little to fear from the web site of a Russian cyclist who
>> likes Linux.
>
> I don't even fully trust docs written by any third party until I can
> cross-check it against official documentation. So I definitely do not
> think it's okay to trust pirated documentation from a Russian site I
> will never be able to know anything about.
>
Which should not reflect on the book I recommended:
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handbook-Edition/dp/0131480057
(Neither should the fact that the one who recommended it - myself - has
Russian origin too. I for one hate the fact that copyright - and decency -
are so much violated on the territory of Russia).
Still, as I stressed in my original suggestion: to get proficient in
anything one has to learn fundamentals, so I would forget about blogs, web
posts, and would begin with a really good book. Unless you are already an
expert in a sense you know fundamentals (but this question is the one that
one can only answer by himself).
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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