Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, austin,

For a physical server, if you have a few bucks to spend on it, you can probably get yourself a decent pc off 
of Craigslist for about $150 which will do just fine.  If you have Bookshare, here's a list of titles to get 
you started building your Linux reference library:

+  Linux System Administration
+  SSH The Secure Shell
+  Learning the Bash Shell
+  Classic Shell Scripting
+  Linux Cookbook
+  Linux Networking Cookbook
+  Linux Pocket Guide 
+  Linux Iptables Pocket Reference
+  Apache Cookbook
+  Tomcat The definitive guide
+  Running Linux (whatever the latest edition is)
+  High Performance Linux Clusters
+  High Performance MySql
+  Vi Editor Pocket Reference

All these titles are on bookshare.  If you don't have it already, I strongly recommend you invest in it as it 
has enormous amounts of books you can use as reference.  What I listed is just the tip of the iceberg on 
what's available.  For practice exercises with some instruction from a trainer, I discovered last night that 
Lynda.com has some Linux and Bash courses you can take.  I confirmed that the site is accessible with Orca 
running Firefox and the courses play just fine if you switch the preferences on the site to html5 for the 
video.  I plan on going through them myself, in fact.  I don't remember how much they are a month but, it's 
pretty reasonable.  Like $30 or something.  I get mine through my company.  Oh, and I don't work as an 
official sysadmin or anything but I do run a small server at work that hosts a learning portal for my 
department.  It's an old Dell machine repurposed as a Debian server running Apache as the webserver for the 
Ilias web application.  Most of my administration of it is done remotely using Putty on windows.  At home, I 
run a Ubuntu workstation/server for the family.  I mostly stream my music collection from it onto my iPhone 
and the wife puts pictures and videos and things on it.  My kids use the desktop I put on it for their 
homework and for learning apps like GCompri, Tuxmath and Tuxtyping.  

Regards,
Alex



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of B. Henry
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 11:28 AM
To: Tony Baechler; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

Yes, I highly recommend a VPS. 
If it is just for learning a bit you can find some in the $3-$5 range even with out a contract/remting month 
by month in other words.
I pay about 35 pounds sterling, around $55 for 6months on bhost which I highly reccomment. I'm getting a mid 
range package with more memory and a ton of bandwidth/monthly IO is 1.5TB. 
I like bhost because they do not use some complex interface that is less than perfectly accessible. 
Every thing other than controling some basic configuration of things like what distro/release to install how 
external connections are handled by the network and such is done via ssh. 
Most vps providers will let you change distros and reinstall as often as you like, and there are different 
backup schemes so that you can save a good gentoo server for later while you try Debian, etc.
I'd actually recommend a VPS even if you do have spare hardware you can use to set up a physical server on.
Seeing how ping times go, how things are routed, and having a permanent external IP to use are jlust some of 
the advantages of using a vps for a learning tool/test bed.
Set up a physical server also if you posiblly can. A raspberryPI is an option if you do not have old hardware 
liing around .
 


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     B.H.
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  Tony Baechler wrote:
Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:55:22AM -0800

> Hi,
>
> I won't quote Geoff's long, very informative and useful post here, but 
> I would like to comment on a point. He suggests getting a VPS and I 
> highly agree! They're incredibly cheap nowadays and often you can 
> cancel after a month. You can try Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc, install 
> anything you want, make a mess, format and start over. Since it isn't 
> real hardware, you literally can't break anything. If you have a 
> recent enough CPU and enough memory, play with KVM, VirtualBox, etc 
> and set up your own virtual machines. That has the advantage that you 
> don't need to worry about security and can experiment with web servers 
> etc on your local machine without shelling out the cash for a VPS. If 
> you can spare the disk space, do an actual Linux install on an extra 
> partition and set up dual boot.
> That way you don't have the overhead of a VM. If there is a specific 
> package you're interested in like WordPress, there are various ways of 
> having automatic installs with minimal effort such as Juju charms on 
> Ubuntu.
>
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