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Operating Systems Linux Fedora How to learn UNIX Post 302504658 by michael78 on Tuesday 15th of March 2011 06:02:29 AM
Old 03-15-2011
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Originally Posted by Redouane
Hi michael,

For the base knowledge, Unix and Linux are the same. the real question is what you want to do with it ?
Unix have a lot of variants : IBM-AIX, HP-UX, and (it's my opinion) the better is Solaris.
Linux is more flexible, redhat is the reference, but we have also Suse, Debian...
If you need to learn the basic knowledge, i think that Ubuntu or Mint are simple to use.
Good question and to be honest with my MS background I don't know what UNIX is used for in the real world. I assume it has many uses otherwise it wouldn't still be around. In a sense I would like to branch out my skills from Microsoft. I see some jobs in my area that require UNIX skills (sometimes only basic skills required) so I figure it's good to learn skills that are in demand.

I have downloaded CentOS with it being basically free Redhat and Solaris Express (since found that Open Indiana is the offshot of OpenSolaris so may download that instead) and FreeBSD. I'm going to install them over the weekend and have a mess on with them.

I've used Ubuntu in the past and think it's come on a long way but is probably too geared towards the home user. I have bought a book on CentOS so will get around to reading that soon. Going to look into buying a book on UNIX as well.
 

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