Are there organizations out there that still utilize the terminal to admin their server or server-networks? That stuff is interesting to me, like modifying permissions via CLI, processing files, you know - linux terminal stuff. I'm interested in that, but if no one does it anymore I'd be wasting my time.
linux servers in enterprise generally do not get GUI's.
Alright, thanks. That's reassuring. How often do you find linux servers in the wild?
Enterprise level servers typically don't use GUI's and most of the management is done over SSL. Considering Linux servers make up most of the server world, it'd be worth while to learn.
That said, I'm in the process of learning linux now and I'm just trying to get my foothold on where to start myself, so good luck to you in your journey.
Depends on the company, at my current small company we don't have linux, at these two other places i have applied for jobs for, both have a few linux servers.
ISP probably 80% of there servers are linux
most places will have RHEL or CentOS, a few will have Ubuntu and Debian
Thanks brother. You too.
What else is out there Windows Server? Unix?
Maybe apple idk i don't do anything with apple at all...ever.
idk if novel is still a thing
EDIT: i guess novel is tied to SUSE.
HP Unix
Solaris
MS Server
Linux
And Some BSD
Novel is tied to SUSE Linux
Windows servers are sometimes used for game servers.
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So obviously you can't get great at all linux server distros, and you can't get great at all the others. What do you think? Would be gettting good with a few CentOS and Ubuntu be alright for Linux, and what MS Server (but that a whole system like Active Directory, ISS, etc...right) ?
Windows servers are used for almost all business servers that are not enterprise level. Pretty much any small-largish size business. Knowing how to properly manage windows servers is extremely important. Knowing how to use the CLI in windows is somewhatish important, you can get by without it unless you use a Core installation to host your hyper-v machines, but you can google your way through that.
I'd not bother learning Novell. I learned a good bit of it in school and it just seems archaic, but it is tied to SUSE. Right now I'm learning a bit of linux through openSUSE, just trying to do crap as I go.
It really depends on what you want to do, do you want to be a windows admin and get a job almost anywhere?
or do you want to be a linux admin and probably have to move to get a job?
or do you want to be like me and have some knowledge in both paths? a jack of all trades master of none.
A lot of companies use HP Unix and Solaris for very large databases and Storage area networks. Solaris is also handy for lots of virtual machines.
Windows is used for SQLserver databases and Echange groupware servers.
BSD is sometimes used web servers and custom network appliances like network caching.
Linux is a jack of all trades but really shines with cloud deployments like openstack and large VM servers with Xen and KVM. SAP and IBM database and big data software are normally ran on Linux as well.
ESXI Is made by VMware and is partially based on Linux and it is used for VMs.
Is Solaris Oracle?
Yes, used to be Sun. There are open source forks as well.
What you may see more often is not so much interacting directly with one system on the terminal, but writing configuration management scripts that interact with hundreds or thousands of systems. You still need some knowledge of CLI and text configs of common services to know what to call in these scripts so it is still very imporatnt to system administration.
The only place you might see desktop Linux is on dev and admin's laptops.. and they will most likely just be running mostly terminal windows, their development software of choice, and a web browser.
80-90% of web servers deployed on the internet are running Linux or some Unix Variation.
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