Hello Richard,<br>Depending on how much detail you want to learn, you may like to take a look at Linux from scratch. <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/</a><br><br>It's a step by step guide, you can get a really good appreciation of how it all fits together.
<br><br>We have a Dover meet on Saturday 27th October, come along for a chat.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Gill</b> <<a href="mailto:jonathan.gill@securecirt.com">
jonathan.gill@securecirt.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Richard<br><br>Congrats on both the 59th birthday and wanting to see more of whats under the hood!
<br><br>Ubuntu does hide most things, very well. Some areas I would suggest are online books, things like the Network Administrators Guide (NAG) for the networking (see <a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/">http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/
</a> ) Although this is a bit out of date it will give you the grounding you seek. Also a quick google for System Administrator's guide linux would turn up <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/">http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/</a>
as the fist hit, which is another really good reference (although a little dated again).<br><br>Other than those two. Any linux system (or unix system) admin book would be a good start, but personally I would tend to start with the free ones!
<br><br>Also don't forget this mailing list. Im sure everyone would be happy to answer questions you have.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Jonathan (In Singapore, which is far to far from Ashford, unfortunately)<br>--<br>Jonathan Gill
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