<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>Though it’s getting a little old now<h1 id="title" class="a-size-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.25 !important;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition is a very good way to dive into the UN*X way. It’s pitched an an intermediate level and covers a great deal of ground. It’s mostly about the command line, and covers general administration and management and running common servers (DNS, email, that kind of thing). What it doesn’t cover is systemd, though, and other recent developments.</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Other good sources are the Arch Linux wiki and the RedHat docs (<a href="http://docs.redhat.com">docs.redhat.com</a>), though the latter can be quite RedHat specific it does give a good overview of general principles and practices regardless of OS. The Arch wiki is a great source to find different ways to approach a problem. While it’s Arch focused, again must of the principles apply to other distributions.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div>On 31 Jan 2018, at 13:42, Colin Law via Swlug <<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2018 at 13:25, Bill Thomson via Swlug <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="gmail-m_5240210527014941939yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517404004276_9681">Sounds interesting Sam :) Even though it's entitled Essentials, it may be too advanced for me. I'm not a professional IT person in any sense, just a home user. I simply need to learn my way around Linux in a very basic fashion. I use Mint Mate and Mint Cinnamon (on 2 different machines). I'd love to learn more about the system though!</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Michael Hartl's "Learn enough ... to be dangerous" tutorials such as [1] are very good.</div><div><br></div><div>Colin</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial">https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial</a><br></div><div><br> </div></div></div></div>
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