Good book for learning enterprise Linux coming from Windows environments?

axer

Anyone know of any good books or videos? Think I could learn much quicker if Linux was explained targeting someone coming from a windows background e.g. cron is like windows scheduler -> that type of stuff.

The more recent the book the better.

I would be hoping to learn more enterprise types of functions rather than just desktop.

If I can get to a base level then I am sure I can just get regular Linux books etc after that.

Telchak

A quick google came up with this, not exactly new though :S

Eliot Rosewater

The For Dummies books are the worst things ever!

Viper_JB

Not exactly a book but.... http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~twohey/using_unix.html
http://educhoices.org/articles/Useful_Tutorials_on_Linux_and_UNIX_for_Beginners_and_Experts_Alike.html
all depends on what distrobution you want to use as they all have their own quirks and utilities.

Naikon

The Red Hat documentation is pretty comprehensive in itself. I have also learnt plenty from the Debian wiki's. Bookwise, just use the manpages for day to day usage and The Unix/Linux systems administration book. Once you know general Unix concepts and commands, managing a Linux box is a cinch for the most part.

There are some differences between the most widely used(Denbian, RedHat. SuSE) but it's easy to admin them all provided you know how to read documentation. Learning Linux/Unix requires a sound knowledge of referencing command syntax, as you are unlikely to remember every last command switch/option.

http://www.admin.com/

Capt'n Midnight

for the very basics start with these two

man hier

info

Moonbeam

I 2nd the O'Reilly books.
The Linux in a nutshell one is really good as is
Linux pocket guide is good too.

After that there are a lot of good books but related to a particular distro or a particular area ie networking,coding etc

syklops

OSI wrote: »

The O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books are usually very good and definitely worth a look.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154493

Also worth a look

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009526/

I kind of disagree with the 'nutshell' recommendation, in that the version I have(which admittedly is pretty old) is just all the manpages in a book. of little help if you are just learning about linux. Great if you are memorising command switches though!

axer

Is there any books that are targeted more at windows users learning Linux?

I would like to start with fundamentally knowing how Linux ticks in comparison to Windows as I think I would understand it quicker. Then once I have that base I can learn from pure linux books etc.

Naikon

axer wrote: »

Is there any books that are targeted more at windows users learning Linux?

I would like to start with fundamentally knowing how Linux ticks in comparison to Windows as I think I would understand it quicker. Then once I have that base I can learn from pure linux books etc.

Not so sure of a book, but I reckon you should read this before you start:

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

Once you get your head around the filesystem hier, common commands, and how to manage services, you are on the right track. Don't expect Linux to be a clone of Windows and you will pick it up easy enough with some practice.

syklops

To my knowledge there is no book that will teach linux from a windows point of view. The main reason in my view being, that linux(Unix) and windows are quite different systems. I mean sure, you can say "Cron is like the Task Scheduler in Windows", but you can't say "Configuration files are like the registry", because they are not. Configuration files are configuration files. They are files for configuring what ever the application in question is, and usually end in .conf.

If someone tried to write a book which did teach Linux from a windows perspective, they would run out of material very quickly.

If I were you, I would get the RHCE study guide, and a copy of Fedora and take it from there.