Linux good practice? 1

[perrymans]

I am going to be working with HP-UX at work, but my access to a Unix box is limited. As in, not going to be around it hardly at all. So I was thinking of installing Linux on my laptop, which would provide me a window into the Unix/Linux structure and language.

Is there enough similarities between the two to warrant this approach?

It is a work laptop, and I will need to have a good PRO argument to get them to buy the bigger hard drive.

Thanks. Sean.

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,
The basic fundamentals of UNIX are the same i.e. you have a kernel which talks to hardware and makes system calls , to communicate with the kernel you can't do it direct so you have a shell(ksh,csh,etc.) on top of the shell you have applications , in some instances you have executable code which talks direct to kernel . Once you have a basic understanding of how unix works , you can install Linux on your laptop to learn about

1. startup scripts ( same principle on HP)
2. inittab file ( ditto)
3. scripting ( similar but certain commands are different)
4. log files ( different commands to view and may be in different places)
5. printing etc..


Once you get an understanding of where things are and how they work , you shouldn't have a problem. So as a free bee
OS it is a good starting point , you can't go wrong.

HTH

 

[Frog]

I correctly work with HPUX, I do alot of my testing of scripts at home on my Linux system before putting them on our production systems at work.