On Mon, Apr 26 at 17:01, Curt Howland penned: > > On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey <jhstuc...@gmail.com> was > heard to say: > > I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a > > better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to > > see if I have learned a lot of the things that might be taught in > > a university-linux/UNIX course. > > Install Sid (Debian Unstable) and maintain it over the course of a > few years. > > Debian administration, one random problem at a time. :^) > > That's how I did it.
This gets my vote. I did take a systems programming class that guided me into reading man pages, but that was about it*. A Linux/Unix class sounds more vocational than conceptual (but I have antiquated notions about the purpose of college/university courses). They used to say - you're not a real linux admin until you've completely borked your system and had to wipe and reinstall from scratch at least once. Not too long ago, I was at an office supply store wearing a tee shirt with a Linus quote. The quote was something like, "The linux motto is 'live dangerously.' No, no - 'Do it yourself.' That's it." Anyway, the clerk at the store enthused to me about Debian, but was baffled by the quote. This is when I realized that linux really had become user friendly (for some values of "user"), and I wasn't entirely sure I was happy about it =P * Not that I'm a sysadmin per se. I run a debian headless server for my own purposes, so there are certainly large gaping holes in my knowledge, but I like to think that I could do whatever I wanted to with the system if I were sufficiently motivated. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100426214645.ga30...@mail.bounceswoosh.org