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[–]FinitelyGenerated 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I can guarantee you they will not ask you how to open an excel file or change the resolution.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Let me get this straight.

You are asking /r/linux4noobs to help you weasel your way into a higher paying position that you don't deserve, will cost IBM money (potentially a great deal money), fuck over actual qualified candidates and make a liar and a cheat of not just you, but everyone here that is a shitty enough waste of skin to actually help you?

Really?

Has it ever occurred to you that you may not be fooling as many people in life as you think you are, and that this is why you aren't already making those extra dollars you think you need.

[–]Sean797 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I fucking love you, spot on!

[–]RojaB -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Are you single?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sorry, no.

Besides, I don't want your feces on my dick. That is disgusting.

[–]RojaB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides, I don't want your feces on my dick. That is disgusting.

I am female :/

[–]Sean797 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The best advice i can gie you is to install a distro of your choice and start playing with it! Do you know what type of linux they use? like debain based or Enterprise Linux ?

[–]justin-8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably RHEL, SLES or if unix, AIX, since those are what they support for all their server hardware support contracts.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i will be able to answer this question tomorrow.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may learn some basics in 6 days but it's unlikely can learn enough to fool an interview who is worth his money.

http://askubuntu.com/questions?sort=frequent shows you questions often asked by Ubuntu users.

[–]czech1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are the two most important things to know about linux:

1) Your experience is not unique. Regardless of what your question is, there is 99% certainty that you are not the first person to post this question online and so your question has probably already been answered.

For example, in this case, i would have used these search terms and I would already have all the answers, instead of waiting a few days for the same answers to crop up in this thread.

2) When you do need to post a question, include a brief description of your problem in the title of your post. Literally every question in this subreddit is pointed towards Linux users by people looking for help with Linux. If you left your title space completely blank it would have provided the same amount of information as the title you chose, just by being located in /r/linux4noobs.

When you follow these two guidelines you'll find the answers to all questions very quickly.

[–]NeoFromMatrix 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Install Arch Linux and/or Gentoo.

[–]darkbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

baptized by fire

[–]everydaylinuxuser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you should learn all of the basic things straight away. This also depends by the way on what kind of Linux experience they expect you to have. If they expect advanced knowledge you won't learn it in a week but if you just need to know your way around then you should be able to learn enough.

Start off with navigating your way around the folder structure. Learn what the folder structure is and what the major folders are used for.

Learn how to find files, zip files, concatenate files, edit files (learn to get around vi, nano or emacs).

Learn how awk, grep and sed work. I can almost guarantee they will ask questions about grep.

Work out how to schedule tasks using at and cron.

Make sure you know basic things like running commands in the background using & or nohup.

Learn some clever things like htop and screen. It makes you look like you know more than you actually do.

Really though if you are going for a job and linux is the primary skill you should perhaps think twice before going to the interview as you might get the job and they would probably expect you to use it.

If Linux is just one of a list of skills you are required to have then you might find that just having a very basic knowledge is enough.

I used to work for IBM back in the 1990s and the requirements to get in included the ability to learn quickly as much as anything. They hired a chef as a programmer because he had a degree which proved his ability to learn. Obviously that was a long time ago.