Question for Unix gurus

[Arkitech]

I'm thinking of taking up a few Unix classes. I'm interested in doing some Unix administration, I've been a Sys admin working with NT for about 2 years and I'm think I'm ready to tackle something bigger. Ideally I would like to get certified in some form of Unix and begin consulting.

So basically my questions are:

Which flavor of Unix is the most common and which would you recommend a new person start learning?

What have you seen some Unix admins earn?

 

[Pepsi90919]

do some linux then move to freebsd

or go right to freebsd if you want to skip the linux crap 😛

 

[Arkitech]

What is Freebxd? Is that similar to HP-UX or Solaris?

 

[aimn]

I think that Solaris is the most common, but HPUX isnt far behind, Aix should be included too. I am an HPUX administrator. You want to start learning scripting also. Pearl, shell scripting, and basic would be a good start.

 

[Arkitech]

Is Unix difficult to learn? I've heard its somewhat easier if you're familiar with dos. I hope thats the case because I've been working with dos commands for a while now.

 

[aimn]

It just takes time. Its mostly command line stuff. Here, go take a look at the Unix forums and see what we do....HP Forums

 

[Linflas]

It is pretty easy to learn up to the stage of knowing enough to be dangerous. That is when the real learning starts. You can get a Linux/FreeBSD machine up pretty quick and that is probably the best way to begin learning.