<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Sandy Harris <<a href="mailto:sandyinchina@gmail.com">sandyinchina@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <<a href="mailto:kaushalshriyan@gmail.com">kaushalshriyan@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I have been working on Linux for quite sometime. What are the necessary > pre-requisites and techniques to be adopted or any specific skills to become > a Linux Guru or Expert ? </div>Explore. Try a few different Linux distros and at least one of the various *BSD open source Unices. Play around. Take a surplus PC, stick two ethernet cards in it and build a working firewall. Make another control your house or a robot or ... Or build yourself a home theater PC. One thing to read, not specific to Linux, is: <a href="http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html</a> In general, read everything Unix or Linux-related you can get your hands on. In particular, guides to sys admin, networking, security, ... and historical material. Both will lead you toward expert status better than most end-user docs or forums will. </blockquote><div> Please refer me to guides. Are you talking about <a href="http://www.tldp.org">www.tldp.org</a> ? Thanks Kaushal </div> </div>