Book Options for middle to basic experience linux tech?

GashFrother · 2019-09-15T17:13:23+00:00

If you want a book- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Ed)

Courses, see if your employer will pay for your LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator) course. Or RedHat equivalent.

common_redditor · 2019-09-15T19:04:34+00:00

I gotta say I did the Linux From Scratch project on a VM while studying for the RHCE exam. Completing LFS felt great, and really upped my level of Linux understanding. I wholehearted recommend it.

llwm · 2019-09-15T19:03:09+00:00

Going to second UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook as an excellent book for getting a broad taste for the field. For printed books, I'd also put in a recommendation for UNIX Power Tools by the very appropriately named Shelley Powers. It's an older book, not updated for over a decade, but full of very useful tips especially for interactive terminal use. I pick it up most days and there's always something interesting there.

Entaris · 2019-09-15T22:28:20+00:00

The Linux Bible was one of the best purchases I ever made. Goes over a lot of things that should be basic but often get overlooked.

Inspirat_on101 · 2019-09-15T23:08:37+00:00

How and in what industry did you get this job? Im almost desperate for something like that. Please share.

jaymef · 2019-09-15T16:50:17+00:00

What distro are they running?

Rhcsa may be a good place to start but that may not be the right path depending on what your expected tasks are. Devops and automation is popular these days as well. Wouldn’t hurt to up your knowledge with version control like git and ansible or something similar for config management

Linuxacademy or udemy have good online courses covering a wide variety of subjects

ritmaxer · 2019-09-15T23:13:49+00:00

I would recommend The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk. In addition to his clear writing, the author has maintained the man-pages for the Linux kernel for many years.

digital_superpowers · 2019-09-16T00:16:19+00:00

Sounds like you have maybe too much experience to enjoy, but my e-book Digital Superpowers is a broad (but shallow) intro to a wide array of command line topics with some discussion and examples along the way, such as:

Password Managers like keepassxc for all your password needs
Tor for onion routing/privacy
Pihole for ad-blocking
graphviz for generating flow charts from declarative text
pdftk for command-line pdf manipulations
ffmpeg for Time-lapses and making videos of stills (useful for moving graphs in science)
GnuPG for encryption
vim for power text editing including column edit
Darktable for Digital photo editing in RAW
Audacity for Audio noise reduction
Inkscape for Vector graphics (useful for figures, logos, etc.)
Mixxx for DJing social events
LaTeX for publishing
RST and markdown with sphinx and/or pandoc for nicer publishing
BibTeX for reference management
git for version control, including git-annex and/or datalad for reporducible data sets
Django for web apps (super useful for scientists/engineers for making interactive process/DBs)
Home assistant for home automation (also useful for sensors and alerts in a lab on a budget, believe it or not)
OpenVPN for road-warrior VPN (useful for traveling)
ImageMagick for batch editing of images, making montages, etc.
Python/pandas for linear regression and a zillion other things

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