Introduction

So far in the course we’ve been using someone else’s Linux system: the CS department’s Linux systems, pre-configured virtual machines, and servers that are deployed with complete operating system images.

While it’s great to be able to use those pre-existing systems, we really want to be able to do this for ourselves.

This week (our last week!) we’re going to spend some time looking at the different kinds of Linux distributions that we can choose from, install a Linux distribution in either a virtual machine environment or (if you’re adventurous!) on your own machine.

Then we’ll look at how you can install packages on the command line, including how to set up a web server.