This book defines a philosophy, but it is also intended to illuminate the practical aspects of that philosophy with experiments that you can perform. Because we SysAdmins are a hands-on group of individuals, this book provides a number of simple experiments that you can perform in order to more fully appreciate and understand the tenets of the philosophy. Most experiments usually consist of a one-line bash shell command or program. Some of the experiments do use more than one line.
This chapter will tell you more about what to expect from the experiments. It will describe the optimum ...
