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HI please answer if u can.

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As and imply, hands‑on practice is the fastest route. The replies already cover getting a system to try; the short checklist below fills gaps by focusing on the concrete knowledge and small exercises that reliably build practical skill.

  • Filesystem layout and file types: what mount points, device files, links and common directories represent, and how space is allocated.
  • Permissions and ownership: user/group model, read/write/execute bits, and when to use access control lists.
  • Privilege separation: the idea of an all‑powerful admin account versus normal users and how privilege escalation is controlled.
  • Shell fundamentals and simple scripting: redirection, pipes, variables and basic control flow to automate tasks.
  • Processes and job control: foreground/background jobs, signals, process inspection and resource limits.
  • Package management concepts and updates: how software is installed, removed and why dependencies matter.
  • Basic networking concepts: IP addressing, name resolution and simple diagnostics.
  • Logging and troubleshooting: where to look for errors and how to interpret timestamps and stack traces.

Practical exercises to try in a disposable test environment (do not experiment on important machines): create users and groups and change ownership; set file permissions and test access; write a short script that archives files and schedule it; install then remove a package and inspect its metadata; start a long‑running job, pause and resume it, then examine logs; set up remote login with keys and test connectivity with basic network tools.

Final tips: practice small, recoverable tasks and take snapshots or backups before making big changes. As and note, no formal prerequisites are required — steady, focused practice on these specific items will make larger topics (system internals, administration, or development) much easier to learn.

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Member Avatar for Slavi

cd/flash drive to install it on your computer and Internet(aka google)

Member Avatar for rubberman

Buy or burn a liveDVD copy of Linux to disc, boot, and learn. Alternatively, install VirtualBox on your Windows system, and install Unix or Linux to a virtual machine, boot, and learn!

Member Avatar for MartinB58

None at all really, as long as you can use a PC/Laptop you should be able to download and try Linux. Personally I would recomend going for an easy to install distribution first. When I started with Linux I first tried Ubuntu and had no problems at all.

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I think it depends on what you want to learn.

If you want to replace your desktop environment with a desktop environment based on *nix, then you should probably start with Ubuntu, Fedora or CentOS (just to name a few of the easer desktop oriented ones).

You should probably start by running the OS in a VM (which is a virtual computer that you can run without deleting your old OS) first. works quite well. Another popular option is VirtualBox.

If you want to learn more about the internals of *nix, then you have a few options. If your running Windows, you can install Cygwin which will give you a Linux like environment to work with (enough to understand the system). If you would prefer a whole OS, then Arch Linux (a minimal "build-it-yourself" linux), FreeBSD and Minix 3 (this one is designed for education. It's easy to look at and modify the source code, and it is a fairly simple system to understand). Again, I would start by running these in VM's. Also, learn how to use man and info. You'll find most of the usefull documentation there.

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basic commande linus
after services
and servers

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