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Linux: Overview and Installation

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Set up an environment for learning Linux. Learn how to install CentOS on a virtual machine and explore GNOME, the open-source desktop environment for Linux.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Linux Overview
  • The origins of Linux
  • Open source software
  • Choosing a Linux distribution
2. Preinstallation
  • Install VirtualBox
  • Manage VirtualBox with the GUI
  • Before installing Linux
3. Installing CentOS
  • Creating a CentOS VM
  • Install CentOS Linux from DVD ISO
  • Install CentOS Linux from a network
  • Virtual machine snapshots
4. Postinstallation
  • Update system software
  • Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Linux
  • Configure basic system settings
  • Customize GNOME 3 desktop
  • Explore GNOME 3 desktop
  • GNOME 3 overview mode
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Grant McWilliams

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