Thanks John, for your answer. I am planning on a linux instalation end of the month to get some practiall experince. Vincent. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: vrijdag 16 november 2012 16:19 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows sysadmin (was: [cpu) Originally I intended to teach myself Windows networking by creating Windows virtual machines. I would think the same approach could be used for learning linux systems administration. On the other hand, when I decided to teach myself linux systems admin, I just got a used machine. Around here, you can get used hardware for practically nothing because people will give away decent machines in order to avoid paying the city's $20 recycling fee. I don't know if that advice still holds up though. It has been 3 or 4 years since I tried to install linux on an older machine. Linux has become more and more of a resource hog lately. But its probably still better than Windows. So you could probably start by getting a used PC. Anyway, when I got started, I just got an old PC, installed linux on it, and started googling for instructions. I've taught myself everything I know that way. Just google it. I was planning on teaching myself Windows networking the same way. But I never got around to it. And now my career went a different way and I no longer have any need to knowanything about Windows systems admin. As for which skills to acquire, all I can tell you is what its like around here. I work for the University of Wisconsin (in the Math Department) and there are a ton of jobs for linux systems admins around here. I'd say linux systems admin and web programmers are the most common. Practically every week I see someone begging for people to apply for their open linux systems admin position. My own department had a job opening like that 6 months ago and while we did get one outstanding candidate, we got only one. It could easily have been zero. I can see why some departments are having trouble finding qualified applicants. Starting salary for an entry-level linux systems admin here at the UW is about $33K. I know a lot of blind people would be glad to start at $33K but in the real world, that's not much. PS: You should change the subject line on a message if you're going to change the subject. Not doing that is called "highjacking the thread." Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 6:37 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] cpu recommendation Out of curiosity:: Why do you run those vm's all at the same time? Is it because of training practices which you need to follow? I am having a semilar question. At the moment i am training to renew my microsoft certifications because my employer request this. And i am not sure which strategy I should follow. I have a macbook air with 8 gig of ram bt a SSD hart drive. I am thinking of buying / building a huge machine with enough capacity to run vmware or Hyper-V to get my lap up and running. I am thinking to chose for vmware so I can also do linux stuff because of future employment and offcorse more knowledge. Anyone a advice for me? Thanks in advance, Vincent. from Op 15 nov. 2012, om 18:39 heeft John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> het volgende geschreven:

I need to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM before December 31. Any recommendations on a CPU? I intend to run linux with Windows running in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. Sometimes I run 2 or 3 vms at once so I'd prefer a qua-core CPU.

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