General :: Best Distro For Learning Terminal?
Mar 19, 2011
I'm looking for the most pure linux terminal distro. I am trying to learn linux and I have Ubunutu 10.10 installed but I feel like it's not as pure as other distros, like Ubuntu 10.10 is different from the average terminal experience.
Maybe I am wrong about this, but certain things like the grub .lst file is now a .cfg file in Ubuntu, is this replicated across all linux, or is this unique to Ubuntu? Little things like this that make it difficult to learn. Are all the distros unique in this way?
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Jun 27, 2010
I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 alongside Vista. I have been looking for a few linux projects to help me learn, the two that I have thought of have been:
1. LFS
2. Something security related
As for no.2, I am interested in learning about network security, intrusion detection, system logging, firewall logging etc. And as a project I would like to work on creating a desktop box as secure as possible, then maybe testing my own box on my home network.
1. Is there a good linux distro that is designed for security?I know people often say "the distro doesn't matter, it only matters how you configure it.
2. Does everyone agree with this? As far as security, learning, etc, are all distros created equally?
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Jan 9, 2011
I have started reading book Linux Device Drivers 3rd edition. So I want to know which is the best light weight distribution to use so that learning can be more generic and also does not involve distro specific nitty-gritty details. I have already tried building kernel for Ubuntu 10.04 but it involved different commands from what is mentioned in the book. So I am not sure whether I would be able to make further in the book. Has anybody tried?
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May 10, 2011
I searched and found several solution but those are distro specific. I need to find out if distro is running in live mode (from CD, USB) instead it's installed on hdisk. The solution should be independent of distribution.
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Jun 23, 2010
Suggest me the best book for learning more about directories in ubuntu filesystem
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Apr 21, 2010
I want to start learning Red Hat Linux & take it as career. I'm in Bangalore, India. Can anyone tell me good Red Hat Linux training institutes in Bangalore (possible near BTM).
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Oct 28, 2010
I'm cross-posting in order to get as a wider audience to get as much feedback as possible. I am currently studying to learn the ) Gidhlig (Scottish Gaelic language and finding studying by rote out of a book a bit 'limiting'. Because of this, I am thinking about creating a software project which could act as an interactive way to helping me learn the language. I've got a few ideas floating in my head but the direction I want to take is that the software is not an alternative but an aid to be used in conjunction with traditional studying materials. I was thinking possibly small interactive games or exercises that both are fun as well as to test and use the parts of language I have learned. There might also be a bit of reporting to show strengths and weaknesses.
Firstly, the technical specifications, that offhand, I can think of that the project will need to meet:
1. Cross-platform (while I would like it to be just Linux, I have to be realistic that people would rather use Windows)
2. The language data is separate from main program so that the software can be used with other languages.
3. Not too complex so that it is quick and easy to program as I will be doing it myself.........
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Feb 12, 2010
Which linux is best for learning embedded systems which has ide like MCU8051ide, piklab and ide for arm processor.
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Jan 9, 2010
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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Jun 10, 2010
I am very new in linux/aix scripting. I request you all to give me efficient pdf book or documentation for learning scripting.
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Nov 27, 2010
Possible Duplicate:
Version of Linux with a command prompt?
Which software of Linux to use for command line running? Since I am using MySQL to run from Linux and want to run Linux, which software to download in Linux? There are multiple ones. Can I run .sh scripts and learn how to operate on Linux using the command line? Also use MySQL as backend on Linux?
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Apr 23, 2010
I've been switched to a new department at work and am totally clueless when it comes to scripting in bash. When I told them I was a fast learner, I didn't think they'd throw me into the deep end of the pool so fast. So to make a long story short. What is a great book to start learning scripting in bash? My supervisor already gave me a simple task to do. Conceptually it sounds quite easy in my head, but actually writing out a script is a bit more daunting and complexed than I first thought.
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Mar 12, 2010
I would like have my client computer be able to boot off of a cd right into a terminal server connection. Not click here, then there, enable wireless....so on.. Just boot into a terminal server connection screen.
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Dec 15, 2010
Lubuntu is nice - but it seems the LXDE version is not as up to date as Fedora LXDE Spin or even Debian squeeze with LXDE installed. I do like Chromium on Lubuntu though... its faster and a nice touch. I am looking for a lightweight 64-bit distribution for my main laptop (it is by no means "old" or "low spec" but I like that Lubuntu starts up in like 2 secs).
LXDE version seems not to be recent (esp in 10.04 version which seems to work more stably for me - with Nvidia drivers etc)64 bit install is currently a pain - requires first install of minimal CD or alternate CD both of which required wired Ethernet, then install of lubuntu from PPA. Native 64-bit support would be nice. Linux Mint LXDE, for example, is also only 32-bit.
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Jan 24, 2010
I am extremely interested in learning more than just the "basics" of Linux. I can install, mount, the very very basics etc. But what I want to do, is learn how to do all this from the shell, while the GUI is nice to surf the web and music,.I want to be able to control my machine. I want a beginners book not on how to install linux, but how to administer it. Something like an idiots book, get myself a good foundation before moving on up.
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Jul 26, 2010
I am a student trying to learn both rpm and dpkg. After installing rpm in my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop copy, I tried the following query with no result:
$rpm --query --all
Is there anything I need to do in addition to installing RMP on Ubuntu and use it?
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Jan 5, 2010
I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now, for my Home PC I have completely switched but still have windows on my wife's and work computers. I am in the data storage industry and have a good basic understanding of unix and linux. For my own learning I want to start learning some basic scripting where I can create simple things that make life easier like to become a beginer UNIX or linux admin..what should i start with...I just seem to be so overwhelmed cause there are some many things you dive into..I see so many types of scripting shells I don't know where I should start to learn the basics
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Apr 25, 2011
I have a project for my computer class, and I was a bit ambitious with my ideas and am wondering if I made a smart choice. I need to learn sooner or later anyway! I'm a beginner when it comes to scripting but I'd like to learn more advanced stuff. When I say basic I really mean basic among all basic. To give you an idea I only know some simple HTML and Python. The idea I proposed for my project goes as follows:
The challenge we were given is to create a spreadsheet of data from a website given to us. Points are given for creativity and simplicity in how we go about doing this.After taking a look at the site (or rather, html files given to us), and with having dabbled with Python before, I came up with what I thought was a pretty good idea.The pages of the "site" are just numbers. They go from 001-117 .html in terms of filenames. Their source code has some sort of table set up, and the information we are pulling off are easily found by the tags that precede them (the info, btw are the periodic elements).
The tags are pretty obvious, and state pretty much what they are labeling. My python knowledge is almost nonexistent but I figured that would be something Python would be capable of. Why do I post this here? I'm relatively new to Ubuntu too but keep hearing about bash scripts and such. Would this be even better? (Perhaps it's silly but I'd like to use Ubuntu to accomplish this)
Or is there an even better scripting method/language I should be using? Could anyone give me some pointers in how I could accomplish this? I'm really hoping to learn a lot from my first "real" scripting experience!
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Sep 2, 2010
I have decided to try out a little bit of c++ programing so I went out and bought me a book "Sams Teach your self C++ in 21 Days" Now I am at the part of the book where you write the hello world script. when I run Code: cc hello.cpp get this
[code]....
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Oct 1, 2010
I'm trying to learn how to use USB from c code. Rather trying kernel stuff I thought I'd (after some searching ) use libusb. So I searched for documentation, unfortunately I came across two sets of documents each with it's own API?
[URL] and [URL]
For example one inits with libusb_init (libusb_context **context) the other uses void usb_init(void); I'm using libusb rather than kernel programming as I'd like to compile the code for windows as well as linux.
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Sep 6, 2010
I have a linux box set up as a multi-purpose server for my home with three Windows client PC's. The linux box is based on a slightly modified Slackware 9.0 distribution using Linux 2.4.20 and an unfortinately old, slow AMD processor with a miserable 512Kb RAM. The linux box serves the CIFS file system to the Windows boxes, runs the SQUID HTTP proxy, the Apache web server, a print server, does masquerading, mail serving and a very effective firewall using iptables.
This system, although slow, has run perfectly for several years.Let me say that again - This system works perfectly.I had decided that now is the time to upgrade the hardware, so I bought a Gigabyte LGA775 motherboard which has two 1Gb network interfaces on it, an ASUS 256Mb PCI-E display card, 2Gb of DDR3 RAM, an Intel Core2-Quad processor and a bunch of 500Gb SATA drives to set up a RAID5 array (but I intend that the system boot off one of several 40Gb PATA drives I have).I set up the processor, motherboard, display card, RAM, a SATA DVD Drive and a 40Gb PATA hard disk in a "breadboard" layout and installed distro 13.1, being careful to set up the static IP for the local network, dhcpcd to get an IP address from the cable modem (my internet connection) and to enable ip_forward in the network configuration.
Then I installed a script invoked by /etc/rc.d/rc.local which installed all the SAME iptables rules as my old Linux box. There was one minor glitch when I had to change 8 occurrences of "-d ! $LOCAL_NET to" "! --destination $LOCAL_NET" but that was no problem. I also set up /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts , the BIND server files etc. etc. exactly as in the old box.
I am able to ping mirror.aarnet.edu.au (this is at the heart of Australia's internet hub network - if it's down the whole bloody thing is down) and have the system find the correct IP from the designated nameservers and contact that server with a return trip time of 35ms. I am able to run a telnet session from one of the Windows boxes and edit files on the Linux server. So both network interfaces work and I've got them the right way around.I am able to run FTP on one of the Windows boxes and connect through to mirror.aarnet.edu.au, although it seems to hang when I try a DIR (but then so does the old linux system).
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Mar 9, 2010
I'm currently going through,what is essentially a Linux+ course. I don't like any of the exercises in the book, as it's outdated and doesn't really thoroughly teach how to implement a lot of stuff.Is there a program or suite of programs out there where I can create a few VM's with their own IP's, users, files systems, etc. so I can setup up Samba, NFS, NIS, etc.?
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Jul 11, 2010
I am thinking about buildinga box to be a dvr, so I did a search on myth tv. Back in 2009 Waterhead advised a questioner that he needed to be prepared for a steep learning curve to install myth tv. I am a relative newbie, is this still the case, or have newer releases such as Mythbuntu made it easier?
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Jan 7, 2010
is it possible to run xen on intel atom or celeron for learning purposes, as when i start the virt-manager it doesn't give me the new option the file menu and when i try to do xm create domain1 it gives error like try running it with config file
if atom/celeorn can't run xen why does it gets installed on the system.
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Sep 30, 2010
I want to start learning GUI bash scripting but I can't find the right tutorial. I'm interesting at creating menus like ex. IPTRAF or MC (midnight commander) but all i find is tutorials for KDE & GNOME. The idea is that I want to create programs that don't need X sessions.
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Jun 3, 2011
I been trying to set up a DHCP3-server on my brand new learning Ubuntu 11.04 server. I can connect when i put the IP infomation in manually, so I know everything else is working, just got to fix the DHCP problem before I put the machine into production on my home LAN. Can someone tell me if these config files located at /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and another at /etc/default/dhcp3-server are correct? eth1 is the NIC that will be the LAN side of the network, I double checked that...
Code:
/# A slightly different configuration for an internal subnet.
subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.200;
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
option domain-name "linuxrouter.local";
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May 26, 2010
Essentially, I am reading the book "Absolute Beginner's Guide to C (Second Edition)", but the biggest problem is that it doesn't have problems nor projects to practice programming. Unfortunately, I do not have the greatest of an imagination to create my own ideas for problems to solve. Does anyone know of any sites that have good problems/projects to work on when I learn throughout the book?
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Jul 25, 2010
Maybe I am posting something completely obvious and unnecessary here, but this is the best web site ever I found as reference for web programming.What makes this web site so special is that om almost all pages which explain some aspects of the language, a button "Try it yourself" takes you to a screen with two panes. In one pane the example is written, the other pane shows the output on a web page. In the first window you can actually change the code snippet, and see the result immediately in the pane on the other side. That is a great way to study why certain things occur as they do.
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Apr 5, 2010
I am trying to set a home file and print serverwhile learning about Linux at the same time. How ever I have hit a wall...I am trying to install samba but I have the following messages...
Urbie:~# apt-get install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
[code]....
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Mar 5, 2011
Is there a terminal emulator which works well in an Ubuntu desktop and provides the following features which Mac OS X's Terminal application has? Re-wrapping text when the window is resized.A Clear command which clears scrollback (as the shell clear does not) and does not clear the cursor's line (typically containing a prompt).
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