Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 1, 2005 @10:14AM from the lots-of-penguin-shaped-tools dept.

Joe Barr writes "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has listed his favorite top ten tools for Linux system administration in a story on Linux.com, one of Slashdot's sister sites." From the site: " Since I spend a lot of my time working with text files, either when I'm writing and editing or when I'm mucking with configuration files and shell scripts, I've become very attached to my editor of choice -- Vim. Over the years, I've tried a lot of other editors, but none of them has been sufficient to coax me away from Vim. Part of the reason for that is the fact that I no longer have to think about using Vi-style keybindings, and adjusting to anything else would seriously hinder my productivity."

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Most important item by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-01 10:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Condoms! With all the groupies chasing Linux system admins, you can never have too many condoms!
Re:Vim? Emacs foreva! by MORTAR_COMBAT! · 2005-11-01 10:20 · Score: 5, Funny

the article said "toolkit" not "tool shed, tool warehouse, and tool factory on wheels".

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Re:Vim? Emacs foreva! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-01 10:22 · Score: 5, Funny

The only 3 commands any Emacs user needs to know:

Ctrl-x
Ctrl-c
vi
I got yer flamewar right here! by adavies42 · 2005-11-01 10:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Wget sucks, curl rules!

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rm by Skadet · 2005-11-01 10:26 · Score: 5, Funny

rm

preferably with the -Rf options.

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