Timeline for A small challenge to familiarize myself with Linux
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| May 5, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | Johan | you forgot the mandatory link to distrowatch.com since there is no better site that can show how many different distros you can choose from. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:08 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Michael Mrozek | ||
| Dec 29, 2010 at 14:48 | vote | accept | vikp | ||
| Dec 29, 2010 at 9:50 | comment | added | vikp | Hi wzzrd, thank you for your replies. Please see the edit. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 23:15 | comment | added | wzzrd | Oh and people, please, Ubuntu is not Linux. Ubuntu is just an incarnation of Linux. A nice one, to be sure, but still just one of the hundreds of distro's out there. So, as far as I'm concerned: install a whole bunch of Linuxes. Install CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo (good one to learn a lot from), a couple of BSD's. You want to learn? Experiment! Try to make your eyes bleed ;-) | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 23:12 | comment | added | wzzrd | Thanks. Virtualbox is a desktop virtualization product, targetted at desktops, with a desktop-friendly interface. I didn't mention KVM for no reason: KVM is server-orientated. It is a Type 1 hypervisor, whereas Virtualbox is Type 2. KVM forces you to learn a little bit about how kernels work, what a hypervisor is and how you can make the kernel into a hypervisor. Virtualbox will merely teach you how to click. Learning Linux is not about 'easy'. It is about 'knowledge'. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 22:19 | comment | added | Josh | +1 for the suggestion of virtualization! Personally I think VirtualBox might be an easier way to learn Ubuntu server, but the concept is the same. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 21:51 | history | answered | wzzrd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |