Linux Installation

You will install Linux on your systems

Goals

• Learn how to install Linux

• Edit configuration files

• Competencies:

  • Linux

  • Configuration files

  • Sysadmin

Step 1

Document yourself about Linux. See what it is, how it works.

In particular, read about:

• what's a "distribution" ("distro")

• what's a "window manager", a "desktop environment"

• what's GNU

But also everything else you can find.

Then;

Step 2

Install Linux

For any installation to be considered valid, after the main system, you need the following software:

• A Graphical User Interface (like Gnome or KDE)

• Git

• SSH

• Node.JS And NPM

• Vim / or NeoVIM

• Visual Studio Code (Visual Studio Code)

• One mainstream browser (Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, ...)

Depending on your distro, a certain amount of that software might come for free. For example, in any of the "mainstream" distributions, you get a GUI by default.

For each installation of a significantly different flavor of Linux, you will accrue points

• A mainstream distribution with a graphical installed (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, ...) is 🔑🔑

• Another mainstream distribution is 🔑

• A raw distribution (Arch, Gentoo, LFS, ...) is 🔑🔑🔑

• Another raw distribution is 🔑🔑

Additionally:

• installing at least one mainstream and one raw is 🔑🔑🔑 bonus

• any one PC without a working system (with a graphical interface) is MINUS 🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑