Best structured book to learn Linux System Administration.

LinuxUser42 · 08-22-2015, 03:26 PM

One recommendation since so many books are dated, is to check your local library. I have found a bit in a lot of books, useful, but no one book, that I would consider the GO TO and not out of date, book.

onebuck · 08-23-2015, 08:19 AM

Hi,

Basic core books can be very useful resources, even if the date may seem out of date by a user. Semantics and syntax may have some differences but a user should still use 'man command' to get their systems syntax for a command.

Discarding something because of date will cause that user to miss some very valuable resources.

goumba · 08-23-2015, 10:52 AM

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Basic core books can be very useful resources, even if the date may seem out of date by a user./QUOTE]

Absolutely.

Bigger organizations are going to use stuff like RHEL and other distributions that don't change as rapidly as the distributions that we use as users and enthusiasts. So, a book that seems out of date by actual date, may in fact, still be good.