Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:08:00 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: Michael Oasay <moasay@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed for newbie to UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000301153748.2574A-100000@spectre> In-Reply-To: <20000301194036.14052.qmail@hotmail.com>
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_The Complete FreeBSD_ is a good (great!) start. You can order it online from www.cdrom.com Also, depending on how new you are to UNIX, you can get some good information to start at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/new-users/index.html Of course, the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) couldn't hurt either. Other books: UNIX For Dummies More UNIX For Dummies Learning the UNIX Operating System (O'Reilly) UNIX in a Nutshell (O'Reilly - in fact, check out http://unix.oreilly.com for TONS of O'Reilly UNIX books) You can also get some decent training if you have the bucks to pay for it. Learning Tree has some good generic UNIX courses (www.learningtree.com) and there are some vendor-specific offerings (HP offers *EXCELLENT* training in HP-UX system administration - I have first hand experience with that - while specific to HP-UX, they cover everything a UNIX administrator needs to know) - I'm sure that Sun offers training as well. And there are a host of other training companies willing to take your money. Just keep in mind that FreeBSD and Solaris are about as different as two Unixes can be (FreeBSD is a direct descendant of 4.3 BSD-Lite, while Solaris is based on AT&T SYS V UNIX) - if you want to know more about that, look up the history of UNIX at http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/Mirror/Hauben/unix-Contents.html HTH - M - On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Michael Oasay wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I'm a wanna be UNIX Sys admin that would like some advice of how I can learn > this OS and become solid at it. I actually want to become a Solaris Sys > Admin, but I figure I'd start with learning UNIX, then LINUX and Solaris. > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Mike. > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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