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best off finding what your job is using, and then running that, it'll probably be RHEL, so your best bet is CentOS\Fedora. Apart from that, diving in, and having Linux Pocket Guide (ISBN 0596006284) and a vi cheat sheet to hand 
Don't be tempted to go for the easy editor of nano or pico, as I found when I started working in my current job is the fact that they aren't even installed on the system, but vi(m) generally is.
Don't be tempted to go for the easy editor of nano or pico, as I found when I started working in my current job is the fact that they aren't even installed on the system, but vi(m) generally is.
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http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/qrc/vi reference card.pdf is the one which my boss presented to me when I was nearly in tears about having to use vi for the first time 
http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/qrc/vi reference card.pdf is the one which my boss presented to me when I was nearly in tears about having to use vi for the first time
Haha! Doesn't Vi come with a built-in tutorial?
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But you have to learn how to use that, of course
Generally the best way to learn anything in Linux is just to get your hands dirty. If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is then reinstall and start again
Generally the best way to learn anything in Linux is just to get your hands dirty. If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is then reinstall and start again
+1 & lol
Once you're familiar with Fedora you could always have a go with installing & running Gentoo, depending what you need to learn I suppose
But you have to learn how to use that, of course
Generally the best way to learn anything in Linux is just to get your hands dirty. If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is then reinstall and start again
+1 & lol
I could not agree more. Keep tinkering until you break it. Linux is typically a learn as you go along OS
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+1 & lol
Once you're familiar with Fedora you could always have a go with installing & running Gentoo, depending what you need to learn I suppose
+1 on this too. You really learn the nitty gritty of linux OS when you get your hands dirty with gentoo, perhaps even Arch for the slightly fainter hearted
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I seem to recall my initial learning of linux was with Slackware ... package management, we don't need no package management ... it was all trawling from text file so try and find out what you needed to download and compile in order to be able to compile what you actually wanted, (like Gimp or KDE ...).
You could try browsing sites like howtoforge to give idea and tutorials on how to do various things.
You could try browsing sites like howtoforge to give idea and tutorials on how to do various things.
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Yes .... particularly if you consider the hardware available at the time. (it would have been late 90's so a 1.x release for KDE)
