[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Bryan McLellan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> What are some things you think someone should have a basic idea in to make
> it appear that they know Unix?
>
> If someone only had 30 minutes to learn Unix without any plan for them to
> continue Unix education beyond that, what would be some trivia or standard
> concepts they should learn so that can pretend to know Unix?

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009304/

> If a non-Unix manager needs to listen in to staff's Unix admin
> discussions, what must he know to fake Unix knowledge?

Let's pretend we're talking about having 30 minutes worth of
knowledge, rather than faking any knowledge. Which is not ethically
appropriate and makes for really terrible managers.