learn unix

lunix is great and fun to learn

i’ve learned unix 3 months before, beginner level but is a start :)
i had to write a shell script at work, and it took me just a weekend to complete.
ive done the dumbest mistakes that you cant imagine, but at the end they are now funny memories.. :)
my company scheduled an upper level course for me,
including administation & programming,
so achieving will be easier than i thought previously :)

I learnt my trade, as a software architect, on UNIX and have used it extensively during all my professional carreer. What makes the strength of UNIX is its internal simplicity. The kernel is extremely lightweight compared to other operating systems and is therefore that much more stable. The philosophy of UNIX is to offer a library of tools, each of which is dedicated to a task and does it very well, rather than having all purpose tools that do everything adequately but nothing well. Where it becomes extremely powerful, is that you can combine those individual tools to do exactly what you want.

The result of this is that UNIX has existed for 30 years, which is ancient in IT terms, but its variants are still the operating systems of choice for critical enterprise systems. You can run a variant of UNIX on anything, from a mobile phone to a massively parallel super-computer. So here are a few pointers to try out UNIX:

• OpenSolaris is the open source version of Sun Microsystem’s variant of UNIX. It runs on x86 or Sparc processors. I particularly like Solaris because I find it a very robust O/S and very consistently designed. This is a professional O/S, meant to run on anything from a laptop to a 96-processor E15k.
• Linux is what most people think of when they think UNIX, even though Linux is not strictly speaking a UNIX variant, as it is based on Minix. It is close enough though.
• BSD and its variants, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, is one of the oldest free UNIX for x86 out there.
• Apple OS-X is based on BSD so if you have a Mac, you are running UNIX. Just open a terminal window (found in Applications/Utilities) and you have a UNIX shell. Apple have considerably customised BSD so, even though it is UNIX under the covers, there are some significant differences. Be careful to understand what is generic UNIX and what is OS-X specific. Having said this, I am currently typing this on a Mac and I will gladly admit that Apple did a fantastic job when designing OS-X.

i want to learn unix

hi could u please make me learn unix

took adv os in college and learned all about the structure and we did some shell scripts and some c programming… not something i want to really pursue tho.

I have to re-partition my harddisk to instll vs.net 2005. This is a good time for me to install freebsd. I think working on vmware is not enough I should play with real unix. (and suffer from lack of driver supports :(

I am reading Mark Sobell’s Practical Unix something.
A bit thick but it is a light reading. Actually, I like the appendix. It gives more detail than man page.

I am playing with debian in vmware.
So far, the experience is good. The way that debian update the whole system via base-config is good. It is like freebsd. But I still don’t know why I always think about Slackware. It is like the beast that you were lost and you need to go back to conquere it, somehow.

To adapt with my work, I plan to install Cygwin on my Windows laptop.