Thank you so much for your responses. I have been a Windows platform administrator for the last 12 years. Is there a certain book or site recommended to learn the shell commands? -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Jason White Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:11 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Linux Introduction John G. Heim <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >I think you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. The only >thing I'd add is that if you are getting into linux with the goal of >ultimately finding a job as a linux systems administrator, you should >eventually work toward learning the command line and you should >ultimately end up using either fedora or debian (or both). Knowing the shell very well is a prerequisite to being a competent and effective Linux user, and even more so for anyone who wants to administer systems for other people, professionally or otherwise. Speakup would be a good starting point, since it has very few dependencies and can run even when large parts of the system are unavailable - precisely the situations in which an administrator's skills are put to the test. I would suggest learning to use the shell and Linux tools as a user first, proceeding thereafter to acquire administrative skills. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
