From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 04:18:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA18780 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 04:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA18775 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 04:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp5.monmouth.com [205.164.221.37]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA20087 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:15:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id HAA00450 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:18:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199709161118.HAA00450@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin In-Reply-To: from Annelise Anderson at "Sep 15, 97 09:32:33 pm" To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.