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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
Requirements for a Linux
System Administrator
We like Linux. Of all the Unix and Unix-like systems we’ve used, many now forgot-
ten,
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Linux is our favorite. It’s an excellent server platform, a good desktop, and the
center of much innovation in the current computing world.
Linux probably has the broadest reach of any operating system, from tiny systems
the size of phone jacks, to cell phones, to supercomputer clusters bigger than your
high school. It has infiltrated the fields of telecommunications, embedded systems,
satellites, medical equipment, military systems, computer graphics, and—last but
not least—desktop computing.
In a relatively short time, Linux progressed from a Finnish hacker’s hobby to a top-
tier enterprise-level system backed by high rollers such as IBM and Oracle. The user
base has grown from about 30,000 people in 1995 to hundreds of millions today.
During the Internet boom of the 1990s, many Unix administrators were surprised
to find that Linux on PC hardware could outperform more expensive Unix work-
stations and servers. Many Windows and Novell administrators saw that Linux
could handle DNS, email, and file services more reliably and with less support per-
sonnel than their current platforms. The growth of the Internet, and especially the
Web, fueled a rapid expansion in the use of Linux servers and the need for people
to manage them.
This book is for Linux ...
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