December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Content preview from Linux Administration Cookbook
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Introduction and Environment Setup
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Understanding and choosing a distribution
- Installing VirtualBox
- Installing our chosen distribution manually
- Connecting to our virtual machine (VM)
- Accessing and updating our VM
- Understanding how VMs differ
- Quick sudo explanation
- Using Vagrant to automatically provision VMs
- Anecdote (try, try, and try again)