Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:11:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin Message-ID: <199709161118.HAA00450@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915212917.21835A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> from Annelise Anderson at "Sep 15, 97 09:32:33 pm"
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> > You _should_ learn at least one Unix from both of those categories, but do > > one at a time. Choose one to get reasonably good at, and don't move to > > another until you can do basic emergency recovery (playing with disks and > > mount tools and processes). Porting software is one hell of a good way to > > learn the programming differences, but probably not so good at teaching > > sys admin-ship. > > So, FreeBSD is a good choice for the BSD4.4 type, a point I have sometimes > made to computer science students. But what's a good SVR4 choice--any > free ones? Any versions of Linux that qualify? > > Annelise > > For educational personal use SCO Unixware comes about as close as possible. The price is about $30 for the CDROM. I picked up Sco OpenDesktop and Unixware licenses off the net (free) and ordered both Roms from SCO. I used to teach SVR3, SVR4 and BSD4.3 Sysadmin and developed a fairly strong liking for some of the Sys5 stuff (and I'm working at implementing some as a FreeBSD package in my spare time -- including the Sys5 init/startup and the Pyramid OS/x Conditional symbolic links which lets the system look like System 5 or BSD based on user configuration). I'm even doing the Pyramid dual init tricks. Unfortunately my motherboard blew out and my "development box" is now my current production box. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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