Good things to learn in Linux?

Question

I'm a sophomore in Computer Engineering and I just got an internship. I don't completely know what the job is on, but I know it is Linux based, and deals with servers. I have limited knowledge on Linux, but have written a few basic scripts ("hello world" type stuff) and understand the basics about things like navigating the terminal, pipes, and root. I've also taken several other programming classes (in Java and C#). Anyone have any idea what kinds of things to expect and what kinds of things would be good to practice before I actually start?

Answer 1

Assuming you are having basic knowledge of programming, You can start up with gathering some basic knowledge on Perl scripting in case you want to move towards Linux programming field.



For building a foundation for further learning networks and servers configurations on a Linux server you can opt for gathering a good information about basic networking, as well as the various application servers.



Keep Learning. Good Luck.

Answer 2

You need to find your distro the school will be using and then obtain the server edition as in Ubuntu server edition etc... You then need to get the basis of that down, try networking between two computers either you own or connect to someone elses computer. If you are based on servers you want to study initial setup of the server, maintenance, various programs and functions, along with terms and codes for the server edition. A good thing to do is try to create a fully function 'server' of sorts for various uses in your free time as a sort of self study. If you can setup and maintain a server on your spare time that will give you an advantage when you have to do it for a grade.



EDIT: If your spare computer is needed for another purpose without the server edition you can either dual boot (takes a lot of room) next to windows or use a virtualbox type program and run the Linux in that program as to avoid completely installing it on your other computer.

Answer 3

Find out what what distro/s you will be working with or download a distro such as Fedora, openSUSE/Slackware, and get some practical experience by getting an old PC (pretty much any old crap will do- so long as it runs and has a NIC) you can install and setup your own basic linux-based server on this for your own practical learning and testing purposes, mess around with it, break it...then fix it (good experience to have ;-) ), whatever.

Answer 4

Very diverse for Linux, fairly some configuration is script based particularly than GUI. yet that makes it extra uncomplicated to create complicated configurations. there is not any abode windows internet server, Linux makes use of Apache, that's extra known around the internet. you will would desire to learn the NFS community document equipment. additionally the ext4 document equipment that's regularly the known for it. Then the Samba (SMB or Server Message Block) server. this is all very diverse. ssh, scp, rsync and so plenty extra amenities to understand. the 1st element of diagnosis in case you % to be any stable at Linux administration is the thank you to think of for your self. and there is not any one stable e book on it, you may desire to verify palms on.

Answer 5

You can learn few good things about Linux here: https://www.linux.com/learn

Answer 6

hmm i don't really know