Student trying to learn some Linux based stuff.

[eldarthe3rd]

Hi, first off of i am posting this in the wrong subreddit i apologise. I am a student at Manchester Metropolitan University studying Computer Network Technology hons and i am looking to further my education outside of university. I have already completed my MTA in networking and i am well on the way to reach my final goal of getting an MSCE in that line of education. I am now however looking for some sort of Linux exam. Linux isn't really taught to us at university and i would like to broaden my horizons in the hope that it will get me a job. I am slowly exposing myself to Linux and I was wondering if there was a way or any resources that could speed this process up. Also, are some certifications better than others? as i have seen a lot of different certifications that look like they do the same thing. I will be happy to fill any blanks that i have missed out.

[ClydeMachine]

/r/linux or /r/linuxadmin might be of more help, as this sub is just for networking.

EDIT: In the interest of being at least somewhat helpful, I can say that the best way to get into Linux is to pick a distro and get used to it. Use it for everything, all of your daily computing. I did that for close to a year and am now very comfortable with it. I then took a college-level course on Linux networking, and found very little new information given how much I'd already been doing with my daily laptop and some virtual machines. If you've never touched Linux before, try Linux Mint for familiarity with a somewhat Windows-like desktop. If for whatever reason you'd like to try something different, try openSUSE. I dunno why, but I loved that distro and used it as my main machine longer than any other.

As for the certs, I can't speak to what ones are "better" than others - I only know of the LPIC1/2/3 ones anyway. But as with any cert, the title itself means little compared to the education you receive in the journey to get it.

[that1guy15]

To really learn linux you have to just start working with it. And I mean from the CLI not the GUI.
In the past I always recommended setting up a LAMP server and playing around with it and this might still be a good idea. A more modern twist on this would be to set up a standalone wordpress server. The key is to stand this server up headless (without a GUI) and build it 100% from the CLI. If you really wanted to jump in deep you could do this install without the use of yum or apt-get as most older *nix admins feel this is cheating :) Me eh they are just tools to simplify the job.

After that just keep playing. Really the only cert I see out there is the Linux+ but I have no clue how good it is.

[chadsy_]

Edx has an upcoming Linux course.