Soldato
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Hello world.
I'm new to Linux. Please don't bite
.
I've only ever used Linux at home as a live CD to fix a PC I'd royally broken. At work I poked around a bit with CentOS and RHEL. Neither time did I have a clue what I was doing!
I'm now at University doing a degree in Software Engineering (90% the same as Computer Science for those that haven't heard of it). For two of modules they want us to use Unix. The Lab PCs are dualbooting XP and Linux, and from Windows we have Remote Desktop access to Solaris.
The Linux distro in use appears to be KDE. I believe it's based on Ubuntu?
We've been told that we'll need access to Unix (Linux) outside of the labs, and to dualboot our PCs by sticking in an extra hard-drive.
My PC is a MacBook Pro and apparently OSX isn't close enough to Unix
. Consequently I intend to use a Linux VM (using VMware Fusion).
If I decided that I really like Linux I'll install it on a PC, but for now a VM on my Mac is enough. I literally don't have a clue what I'm doing in Linux.
Anyways, the question is.... which distro do I want?
As you can probably tell, I don't have a clue what I'm doing in Linux - so something that's easy to use but does help me learn would be good. Others in my class seem to be going with Ubuntu.
TY all.
I'm new to Linux. Please don't bite
.I've only ever used Linux at home as a live CD to fix a PC I'd royally broken. At work I poked around a bit with CentOS and RHEL. Neither time did I have a clue what I was doing!
I'm now at University doing a degree in Software Engineering (90% the same as Computer Science for those that haven't heard of it). For two of modules they want us to use Unix. The Lab PCs are dualbooting XP and Linux, and from Windows we have Remote Desktop access to Solaris.
The Linux distro in use appears to be KDE. I believe it's based on Ubuntu?
We've been told that we'll need access to Unix (Linux) outside of the labs, and to dualboot our PCs by sticking in an extra hard-drive.
My PC is a MacBook Pro and apparently OSX isn't close enough to Unix
. Consequently I intend to use a Linux VM (using VMware Fusion).If I decided that I really like Linux I'll install it on a PC, but for now a VM on my Mac is enough. I literally don't have a clue what I'm doing in Linux.
Anyways, the question is.... which distro do I want?
As you can probably tell, I don't have a clue what I'm doing in Linux - so something that's easy to use but does help me learn would be good. Others in my class seem to be going with Ubuntu.
TY all.
.