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Read this if you are serious about being a Unix Admin...

Okay someone posted this as a response to a newbie question about books and resources and the ever popular "What should I read to be a good unix admin " newbie question...

I feel this should be a sticky, because after having read a good portion of it since yesterday, I noticed the bibliography...WOW!!!

There are well over 100 book references there... I would buy them all if I could...

Please read this if you are serious about becoming a great UNIX/Linux SA and programmer.

The Art of Unix Programming

Here is the bibliography link that is in the above link as well... Bibliography


EDIT, 03/24/05:

I found one more great site I had forgotten about till a few weeks ago. It shows the utterly complete history of every known UNIX flavor, a family tree, if you will...

http://www.levenez.com/unix/


ENJOY!!!

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