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Pragma · 08-05-2003, 02:38 PM

I'd say a good way to learn is to jump straight in - the way I taught myself UNIX was to set up my network configuration to use my BSD machine as a router/gateway/firewall. When the rest of my computers were suddenly cut off from the internet, due to a misconfiguration, I had a vested interest to learn how to fix it.

When I wanted to run a webserver, I didn't want to run it on my game box, so I had to figure out how to install and configure Apache on the BSD machine. When I wanted to set up a fileserver, I had to figure out how to set up an FTP server on BSD.

Basically, like with anything you want to learn, invent a project for yourself and make sure you keep working at it.

08-05-2003, 02:38 PM	#5 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	I'd say a good way to learn is to jump straight in - the way I taught myself UNIX was to set up my network configuration to use my BSD machine as a router/gateway/firewall. When the rest of my computers were suddenly cut off from the internet, due to a misconfiguration, I had a vested interest to learn how to fix it. When I wanted to run a webserver, I didn't want to run it on my game box, so I had to figure out how to install and configure Apache on the BSD machine. When I wanted to set up a fileserver, I had to figure out how to set up an FTP server on BSD. Basically, like with anything you want to learn, invent a project for yourself and make sure you keep working at it. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!