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recommended SYS V and BSD systems for Intro Sys Admin course

recommended SYS V and BSD systems for Intro Sys Admin course

Post by Irvine Shor » Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:00:00



Hi All

I've been asked to lecture a 3 day Intro to Unix System Administration.

I know FreeBSD quite well, and thought I'd used that as a reference BSD
system.

Any recommendations for a SYSV system? Is Linux close enough? I know nothing
about it.

Failing that, I guess SCO would be a good bet. Which leads me to wonder -
what about the licensing?

SCO have a free 2 user license for home use, and say it's free for academic
purposes. Would giving a sysadmin course for 6 guys for a little training
company constitute academic use?

Also, for a book I am very happy with the "Unix System Administrator's
Bible" by Yves lePage etc.

Any other suggestions or comments?

All welcome, and please cc me on any posts. Our news server is a tad
unreliable.

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recommended SYS V and BSD systems for Intro Sys Admin course

Post by Mikhail_Tatauro » Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:00:00


Hi


> Hi All

> Any recommendations for a SYSV system? Is Linux close enough? I know nothing
> about it.

for example :
SYSV - NCR MP-RAS unix (AT&T)

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recommended SYS V and BSD systems for Intro Sys Admin course

Post by Timothy J. L » Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:00:00


|I've been asked to lecture a 3 day Intro to Unix System Administration.
|
|I know FreeBSD quite well, and thought I'd used that as a reference BSD
|system.
|
|Any recommendations for a SYSV system? Is Linux close enough? I know nothing
|about it.
|
|Failing that, I guess SCO would be a good bet. Which leads me to wonder -
|what about the licensing?

SCO OpenServer and UnixWare, and Sun Solaris, offer very low cost
personal / noncommerical licenses.  Perhaps the students can buy
these licenses before taking the course.

Linux is not really BSD or System V, though many BSD (as well as
GNU) things have gotten into it.  You may want to include it as
another flavor, since it is relatively common.

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recommended SYS V and BSD systems for Intro Sys Admin course

Post by Ed Keighro » Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:00:00





> |I've been asked to lecture a 3 day Intro to Unix System Administration.
> |
> |I know FreeBSD quite well, and thought I'd used that as a reference BSD
> |system.
> |
> |Any recommendations for a SYSV system? Is Linux close enough? I know nothing
> |about it.
> |
> |Failing that, I guess SCO would be a good bet. Which leads me to wonder -
> |what about the licensing?

> SCO OpenServer and UnixWare, and Sun Solaris, offer very low cost
> personal / noncommerical licenses.  Perhaps the students can buy
> these licenses before taking the course.

   solaris for intel is free.

   you just need to download it.

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> Linux is not really BSD or System V, though many BSD (as well as
> GNU) things have gotten into it.  You may want to include it as
> another flavor, since it is relatively common.

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