Book to learn system administration using CentOS Linux?

[shivajikobardan]

Recommend the best out of the bunch. I am visual learner so book with lots of pics, codes would be immensely useful.

 

[jedishrfu]

Its hard to recommend one book on this topic as it changes quietly and slowly so some books are 10 years old while the one below is from 2021:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119794455/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Amazon is a good resource to find these books with useful book reviews and ratings.

People involved in day to day Linux admin seldom look through books although they use have a couple in the office as backup when things go sideways.

Here's another popular one:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134277554/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[shivajikobardan]

what do they look instead? man pages?

 

[jedishrfu]

People search for the solution because so much will not be in the books. Thats what I do when I have a Linux issue. Sometimes its hard to describe it but if I have an error message I search on that to find my solution.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Reading a book and becoming a good systems administator is like reading a book and expecting to become a violinist for a symphony orchestra. There is no substitute for practice.,

 

[shivajikobardan]

Reading a book and becoming a good systems administator is like reading a book and expecting to become a violinist for a symphony orchestra. There is no substitute for practice.,

you must practice from somewhere right? nobody is telling either read a book or practice I mean.

 

[jedishrfu]

Lets not get caught up in the pedantics of learning things. Of course, people start out with some book and then through experience learn things not taught in the book which makes them good systems engineers. Many sysadmins read hacker books to see how its done and to see how they can protect their machines.