Lesson 2 Date: 1/29/2014

Linux installation and upgrade

Linux for Engineering and IT Applications

Some popular Linux distributions Ubuntu Debian Mint Red Hat CentOS Scientific Linux Fedora SuSe Their main difference is in the installation way of the OS components and software, which is called a package management. See them on distrowatch in the right colomn.

Linux distributions Ubuntu distributions Installation media Bootup and installation stages Ubuntu Installer Stage Partitioning disks Installation partitions Ubuntu packages dpkg APT APT front ends Automatic Installation Virtualization KVM (exercise) Preparing for Ubuntu VM (exercise) VM configuration (exercise) Interactive installation (exercise) Take me to the Course Website