On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:19:26PM -0300, Lucas Mendes Marques Gon?alves wrote:
> I am applying for a job in the physics institute of my university, and
> as a part of the test, I am supposed to do an install, and then "make
> the system secure" and "monitor network performance"
> 
> I am currently reading the red hat 5.4 deployment guide (that is what
> SL is based on, right ?). I'd like more tips on things to read, if
> anyone has any ideas.


Instead of reading books, you should be burning Linux CDs and installing
Linux on every computer you can get your hands on, securing it and measuring
your network performance (a good start would be to learn how
to find out if you have a 100Mbit or a GigE connecttion using only "ping").


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Konstantin Olchanski
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