Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook?
Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook?
Hello,
Longtime windoze user (because work, gaming, programming, lazybess, ...) I'm switching over to Linux Mint (a slow long process that might finally end up with just a little win-box for the printer and a soft or two) on all my everyday pc:s so I'm trying to get more into the nitty gritty stuff here, and I have long time heard that the:
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition)
Is like the Linux Bible...
Is it still so? Is it still worth the money or are there better books out there?
Cheers!
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I'm of the opinion that computer textbooks are out of date the second they are published. That one was published in 2017, so 6 years ago, which is an eternity. It might have some generally useful advice, but in terms of resources, google and online wikis are going to be more up to date (still probably outdated, but less so, and free).
Yeah, exactly this. Your best bet is to sign up to one of the Linux communities here and read through some of the posts.
The big difference is that a book is structured to teach you bit by bit. One of the issues of learning a new subject is that you don't know what you don't know. Something structured like a book solves this.
That being said, a six year old book is ancient when talking about computer related stuff...
Maybe just the basic GNU tools that come with every dostro, but other than that... yeah, that is ancient.
Though implementation specifics may change, the foundational concepts remain the same.
I like how computer textbooks organize general concepts, similar to what I got out of formal education.