I don't know anything about it, but if I were going in blind, I'd use CentOS. It's a debranded RHEL, and would be a safe bet for commercial-centric education.
My employer has agreed to pay for my textbooks and certification exams. One of the first exams I plan on taking in Linux+ (LX0-101 and 102). What are the best Linux distro(s) out there for me to practice with for these exams?
I don't know anything about it, but if I were going in blind, I'd use CentOS. It's a debranded RHEL, and would be a safe bet for commercial-centric education.
Yeah CentOS, though if it really does not mention I'd also play around with Debian. At least try to know where basic stuff like network configs go (it's completely different than RH). There could possibly be questions that cover both lines of distros.
I don't know anything about it, but if I were going in blind, I'd use CentOS. It's a debranded RHEL, and would be a safe bet for commercial-centric education.
+1 and do yourself a favor and stick to the terminal as much as you can. While some of the GUI apps are convenient, the sooner you can live with CLI, the better (I'm still a noobie, but have forced myself to boot to CLI, its the only way to learn).
For some 2ndary reading, I really found this book to be the most helpful in getting acquainted with the Linux command line. Unlike some books (I'm looking at you Unix Programming Environment) it knows that you are most likely coming from a Win/Mac GUI environment, and treats you as such. The language its presented in is very welcoming as well. Some of these books were meant for robots, I swear.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Linux-Comm...x+command+line
As a matter of fact, they didn't ask where they were stored, they wanted to know how to use the RHEL gui tools to set things.
While CLI is very powerful, gruven's point is strong too. A test can very well focus on the GUI configuration tools. If a distro has a tool for a task, one should know it. One can toss all tools out of the window and rule with vi -- if one knows the system -- but that is hardly the goal of exams.+1 and do yourself a favor and stick to the terminal as much as you can. While some of the GUI apps are convenient, the sooner you can live with CLI, the better.http://redirect.anandtech.com/r?url...eywords=the+linux+command+line&user=u00000687