Where to learn Linux?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi sammy,
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:24:04AM +0200, sammy ominsky wrote:
> On 15/03/2010, at 09:53, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dov,
> >Not far off at all from the original question. The first thing that I look 
> >for in an employee or consultant is is he has this feel for the state that 
> >you mention. If the employee has only used Windows or Mac at the GUI level, 
> >then the chance of his understanding the system state is very small because 
> >the visual pane of Windows and Mac that is designed to make things easy 
> >effectively prevents all understanding of the system state.
> 
> 
>Honestly, even though I spend many hours a day on the command line of debian 
>servers, I feel I've ruined myself for linux by delving too far into OS X on 
>the command line :)
> 
>OS X doesn't prevent understanding of the system state at all, it just 
>doesn't force that understanding.  If the desire to delve is present, the 
>command line offers much deeper system access than the GUI ever could.  It's 
>very different than linux, though.
> 
>Someone plugged a USB drive into one of the servers in a data center in the 
>US, and for the life of me, I couldn't think of anything on a debian system 
>that would give me a list of all attached disks. On OS X, I'd just type 
>'diskutil list' (output at the bottom of this email, if anyone's curious).  
>In the end, dmesg told me where to find the disk, but maybe it's time for 
>some disk utility on linux that's caught up to the present?  cfdisk is great 
>if you already know what device you want :)
> 
>Anyway, back on topic...  My company is considering creating a position for a 
>junior sysadmin, and honestly, I'd much rather have a 20-year old with 6 
>years of playing with "servers" in his basement than a freshly-minted RHCP or 
>whatever.
> 
> Anything that does this on linux?

If you have a recent Debian testing (Squeeze), make sure that you have the 
package devicekit-disks installed and run:

# devkit-disks --dump

baruch

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