0.0 Ubuntu Need to Know Basics
What You Need to Know
Before you start on the Bonsai Framework there are some basics you should know and useful beginner tools I recommend,
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Understand Directories and Files |
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Navigate Directories from a terminal |
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Edit text files from a terminal |
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HTML and then Web Servers |
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Basics of Networking | IP address, name resolution |
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Remotely Mounting Folders |
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SSH Terminal |
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The rest of this article still needs to be written. It should cover only the basics of what you need to know to get by in the tutorials.
Command Line Basics
Why Learn it and NOT Use a GUI (Graphical User Interface)
For server administration in an enterprise environment the most important thing to have is predictability and stability.
The traditional Linux CLI (Command Line Interface) also known hence forth as terminal achieves this by,
Predictability - Being repeatable (you can copy and paste) with a history of what occured
Stability - Most servers have no GUI resulting in less processes to crash, less to patch and low resources
Navigating Directories
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Edit and View Text Files
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Upload and Download Files
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SSH Mounting on Windows and Mac OS X
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