I think certification in itself kinda sucks too, but it is a form of motivation to learn the material, and ofcourse, the main argument is showing it to employers.
Hmmz, dial-up days, rats, why didn't I go thru with Linux then? In those days it would have cost you money to look up something online, and the info that was online was different, in other words, in those days you would have had to learn Linux the hard way, which come to think of it is probably why I switched back to that other OS too.
Right now if I have a problem, Google is my friend, I just type something, and presto: instant solution! Well in many cases anyway.
Which is sad, because you don't learn anything from that.
I do remember one time I noticed that I still had a Windows partition on my disk, unused for 6 months. I believe I slowly deleted every byte of it before finally removing the whole partition, just for fun..)
But anyway, learning *nix, I did some research and found a few books that have a high rating:
- LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
- Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
- Linux Bible (these are also available in Distro-specific flavours) (Christopher Negus)
- Running Linux (O'Reilly)
..and virtually no money to spend.
choices, choices..
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Last edited by Nico Kempe : 11-04-2006 at 02:48 PM.
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