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From: Dan Tacker on 16 Dec 2009 00:39 Hi all, having worked with commercial unixes for the last 8 years, I need to brush up my linux skills. In short: I want to learn about linux specifics like devicemapper multipath, udev, /sys and the like. Not about unix essentials like processes, shell, etc. Which books or online ressources can you recommend? TIA Dan
From: notbob on 16 Dec 2009 11:37 On 2009-12-16, Dan Tacker <nomail(a)nomail.com> wrote: > Which books or online ressources can you recommend? Install a copy of Slackware linux, the most unix-like linux of all. Best of both worlds. nb
From: Aragorn on 16 Dec 2009 18:18
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 06:39 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying as Dan Tacker wrote... > Hi all, > > having worked with commercial unixes for the last 8 years, I need to > brush up my linux skills. > > In short: I want to learn about linux specifics like devicemapper > multipath, udev, /sys and the like. Not about unix essentials like > processes, shell, etc. > > Which books or online ressources can you recommend? The Gentoo Documentation Project is pretty good - they've got documentation on just about everything. http://www.gentoo.org In the event that you're not familiar with it, Gentoo is a distribution which initially gets installed as a base system using binaries - minus the kernel, because you have to build one yourself at install time, or use the binary install kernel from the CD/DVD - but the idea is that you then apply customizations via a few configuration files and then you can completely recompile the system with optimizations for your hardware and preferences, all with a single tool called "emerge". The additional software comes as source code - binaries are possible but then you lose the ability to customize them - and is compiled and built locally on your system. Gentoo is also a "rolling upgrade" system, meaning that you can seamlessly upgrade from one version to another, as the packages in the online repositories are constantly being updated. The init system is a bit different from that of traditional binary distributions, though. They use named runlevels instead of numbered ones, and init scripts with dependency checking. The website provides you with all the documentation. -- *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157) |