Adventures with Ubuntu

I’m having my ups and downs with Linux. Last night I got Ubuntu to successfully install and boot up which I was quite pleased with and I’ve spent today configuring it. When it first booted up and I found I had nothing but a command line I decided it was best to keep it that way. Throwing yourself in at the deep end is a good way to learn things if it doesn’t matter if your drown.

So far things have gone reasonably smoothly. I’ve managed to configure my ethernet connection and get it on the network so it can download things and I’ve managed to get Apache, MySQL, Postgres, OpenSSH and an FTP server up and running on it so far although they aren’t working together perfectly yet. But I’ll be working on those problems soon enough.

Btw, if you ever need to edit a file on Linux use vi. Just type vi filename and it launch the command line type text editor dealie. Why does nobody tell you that? I had to pour through Linux commands pages from Google search results for ages to find that out. If I want to create a directory then there are a million pages available telling me how to do that. But when it comes to editing a file, it seems to be the hidden secret of the Linux world.

The only problem is, my computer isn’t massively quite, it probably makes even more noise than my laptop so I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep through it which means turning it off and on again every night. Until my parents go away to Canada, then it’s just getting moved to a different room and left on constantly :p.

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