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This is a question for the GNU/Linux users in the Soylent community.
Linux is being used in some areas of my company, and having knowledge of it would be beneficial to my employment. While some commands are familiar from previous dabbling with Linux (ps -ef, top, su), I never really obtained a good understanding of how to manage an installation of it on my PC. It would be really helpful to get a solid base understanding of how to manage a Linux system. My criteria for learning include understanding the directory structure and why things need to go in the places they are in. Other than purchasing a copy of Running Linux, or going through a Linux from Scratch install; what does the community think is the best way for a newbie to go from a cursory understanding of Linux to real in-depth knowledge these days (Classes, RTFM, forums)? It would be great to be have this knowledge should an opportunity present itself in the future.
Thank you for your input.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 26 2014, @08:57PM
We had Fedora on the workstations at my one job. Got me a heck of a jumpstart on fundamental command line stuff and stumbled my way into some basic bash fluency.
Most of the team used vi, but other than that they were good people ;-)
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