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Old 15th June 2008
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I do not consider myself to have learned Unix System Administration as you put it, because there will always be much more for me to learn.


I began my time with FreeBSD when I chose it as the foundation for studying deeper into computers, after reading this document I knew it was going to be a Unix like ;-)


Programming, system administration, web development, mathematics, software engineering, computer science, and system design all interest me so it's a bit of a natural fit.


My initial research for using FreeBSD was the handbook and Wikipedia until I was able to make heads or tails of the systems manual pages.


One day when we stopped at the local library, they had a book sale going. On one of the shelves were three old LPIC prep course books from SmartCerify Direct: "Linux Fundamentals", "Linux Administration", and "Linux Networking", dated copyright 1998-2000 and dealing with Linux 2.2.x

First time I actually found a decent computer related book that didn't fit into the category of "Learn to use MS FooApp X.Y" -- I can do that in 10-20 minutes.

Read them and my systems manual pages and gained a bit more understanding of things closer to the system, although I have never and still don't actively use GNU/Linux on a regular basis !


Then after I got a new desktop for multibooting, I setup the old test machine and started to play: PC-BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD; ssh only access, samba, cups, lpd, sshfs, pf, nfs, mysql, apache, etc. That machine currently runs OpenBSD and functions as a file server with a database & http services tacked on for there usefulness in testing code.

Given enough time, strength, and energy I can learn just about anything I set out to learn.


One thing I like about this forum, is it's a chance to evaluate input from people more seasoned in things I am not ;-).


Never worked in 'computers' so to speak, although if they treated me better then my current employment and the pay check made the bills, I'd sleep in a server room if asked lol.


I use computers predominately because I love to, programming and caring for them is just the icing on the cake.
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