Terminal Server

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Any tips or good sites for learning how to use terminal guys?

I have touched on it in the past but after speaking to my brother he said it would be a good thing to know for administering servers and things.

I have a spare machine i was going to install opensolaris on to do some messing around, is this good or bad?

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ace
 
You can get a good grounding by reading this: http://www.linuxcommand.org/

Also, if you just want a list of commands (pick whatever interests you most), then take a look here: http://oreilly.com/linux/command-directory/

Really though, you will learn better by doing things, set yourself a task e.g. setting up Apache or a LAMP server, and figure out what things you need to do in order to install and configure them.

As for the spare machine, if you're not doing anything else with it, then, I say go for it. Most of all though, have fun, the terminal is the most powerful tool in any Linux/Unix system, and must be respected.
If you don't want to install Linux to the HDD itself though, you could use VirtualBox or VMWare and create a virtual machine (sandbox) to try stuff out. That said, Im all for installing as many OS' as you want, personally, quad booting Fedora, Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7 (plus Yellow Dog Linux on PS3).

For the past year or so, ive been running a git/subversion and web server, its a great learning experience, and would recommend everyone interested in system admin things do it at least once :)
 
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Terminal Server is a Microsoft product for Windows.

What you mean is you would like to learn to use GNU tools from a bash shell, and touch on Linux's varios configuration methods.
 
WDN said:
You can get a good grounding by reading this: http://www.linuxcommand.org/

Also, if you just want a list of commands (pick whatever interests you most), then take a look here: http://oreilly.com/linux/command-directory/

Really though, you will learn better by doing things, set yourself a task e.g. setting up Apache or a LAMP server, and figure out what things you need to do in order to install and configure them.

As for the spare machine, if you're not doing anything else with it, then, I say go for it. Most of all though, have fun, the terminal is the most powerful tool in any Linux/Unix system, and must be respected.
If you don't want to install Linux to the HDD itself though, you could use VirtualBox or VMWare and create a virtual machine (sandbox) to try stuff out. That said, Im all for installing as many OS' as you want, personally, quad booting Fedora, Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7 (plus Yellow Dog Linux on PS3).

For the past year or so, ive been running a git/subversion and web server, its a great learning experience, and would recommend everyone interested in system admin things do it at least once :)
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Some great info here mate, i might just install a few O/S or even try setting up an APACHE server
 
BigglesPiP said:
Terminal Server is a Microsoft product for Windows.

What you mean is you would like to learn to use GNU tools from a bash shell, and touch on Linux's varios configuration methods.
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Well, a shell ;). But yeah, if you go with Bash its worth spending some time understanding the .bashrc file and the capabilities of bash in general. Its brilliant.
 
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