Fresher/ beginner in Linux
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@jimmynelson I can empathize. I'm getting my feet wet as well.
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Hey,
My advice is to install a couple of Linux Machines in virtual-box and make them all bridged and play with that.
Dont go head on with Linux no gui approach if your fresh.
Stuff like Ubuntu or Lunbuntu or Fedora, and play with installing packages and use the terminal as well for packages installation and moving between directories.
If you want to fast forward your Linux learning, install it as dualboot or as the primary operating system in your machine, I did that while I studying university, it was Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 was so gorgeous back the in the day with the hole brown African theme.
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@msff-amman-Itofficer thank you for connecting me ..msff... l'm beginner, l m studying comptia N + now to start with and later start to install centos/ redhat .... i think l
need Networking skills as well to support my journey and understand better linux ......please msff i need your support as everything going on l'll let u know my step and after complete my N+ . -
Sure thing.
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@EddieJennings thanks eddie,
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@msff-amman-Itofficer thank you
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@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
Dont go head on with Linux no gui approach if your fresh.
Why? The GUI is just a distraction and more to learn without benefit. I highly recommend avoiding the GUI so that you study what you need rather than accidentally spending time studying tools that don't exist on servers and missing steps in getting from A to B.
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Sometimes that might scare people, and having GUI allows you to have web-browser on the same machine, thus you can easily open this site and copy and paste commands and learn.
Some fresh users wont be able to virtualize and enable bidrectional copy/paste, but you do have a point that its useless GUI stuff will never come in servers.
But it all depends on the user experience and what he means by fresh/new starter.
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@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
Sometimes that might scare people, and having GUI allows you to have web-browser on the same machine, thus you can easily open this site and copy and paste commands and learn.
You connect to your VMs via SSH anyway, so you always get the web browser and copy/paste. That's not different. What is different is that they can stay on any desktop that they are comfortable with, no reason to learn something new WHILE trying to learn something else new.
The first reaction to "I want to learn X" should not be "then spend time learning Y which doesn't contribute to X". Same reason a raspberry pi is a bad idea.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
Dont go head on with Linux no gui approach if your fresh.
Why? The GUI is just a distraction and more to learn without benefit. I highly recommend avoiding the GUI so that you study what you need rather than accidentally spending time studying tools that don't exist on servers and missing steps in getting from A to B.
As much as I argued against this at the beginning of my journey, I now agree with it.
If you really want to learn Linux, do not use a GUI.
If you are using a GUI, you might as well be using anything.
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My advise is to not "play" with anything. Put Linux on your daily driver and use it exclusively to get your work done. If you can't do something you want or need to do while on Linux... Figure out how to do it on Linux.
Implement common services on Linux servers (Hypervisor, DHCP, DNS, Nagios, Email Server, etc...) using the major distributions(CentOS, Debian, SUSE).
Don't put a GUI on your servers. It's a waste of your time and resources.
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@jimmynelson You don't have anything to unlearn now. Perfect time to learn the terminal.
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@RamblingBiped Great. Thanks
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@wirestyle22 thanks
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@RamblingBiped l'm studying comptia N+ now to build my "foundation in computing networking..because l'm new in IT field.... after complete my N+, start learn linux and install centos/ Redhat........
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Can't remember the last time I used GUI, I use Ubuntu server which does not have it installed by default
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@StuartJordan said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
Can't remember the last time I used GUI, I use Ubuntu server which does not have it installed by default
I'm not sure I've ever seen one on a server.
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@scottalanmiller no windows Servers?
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@scottalanmiller said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
@StuartJordan said in Fresher/ beginner in Linux:
Can't remember the last time I used GUI, I use Ubuntu server which does not have it installed by default
I'm not sure I've ever seen one on a server.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd begin!
