UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am a newbie learing Unix , I have started with teh book "the Design of the Unix OS" by Bach.After which I plan to read "UNIX Network Programming" by Richard Stevens.
What is the background that one needs to learn unix. I know C. But I am not sure about my Operating Systems Concepts. Shud I read a general book on Operating Sysytems first?Or shud I learn General Networking?

Thanks

Grab Unix Complete by Sybex.
ISBN: 0-7821-2528-X

Apart from providing a great overview and what I've found as invaluable newbie reading, it's always with me as a quick reference.

I highly reccomend it, but it's not the "Be-All-And-End-All" of Unix references as you could imagine.

Hope that helps.

Hi,
with my learning experience, it is better to start learning Unix fundamentals first along with OS concepts correlating with DOS and Windows.
Since, this give you a better understanding of Unix OS.
Networking comes the next.

hope this give you some idea.
Anent

Hi,

That is what I am trying to do now, I am going thu 'The design of the Unix OS' by Bach and side by side I am also reading "operating systems" by Tannenbaum which I thing gives you the OS concepts.
I am planning to learn TCP/IP and the other protocols after I get strong in the Unix concepts.

Hope I am following the right path

Thanks

It´d be useful for ya to read some of Douglas E. Comer TCP-IP stuff... He presents a very well organized collection of network books, with RFCs references, and so on... About OSes, I recommend you to read Unix Systems Administration Handbook - Prentice Hall. It explains everything about the basic concepts of Unix, linking the reader to some references outside the book. Finally, learn C! ;-)