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Class 05 Reading Assignment: Installing VirtualBox with Linux Terminal

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Matthew Chance Phillips edited this page Sep 11, 2023 · 2 revisions

VirtualBox is a program that allows you to, basically, create an entire physical machine inside a computer. The virtual machine thinks it has everything a physical machine has like a CPU, hard drive, and an OS. This allows you to do things inside this virtual machine without having to worry about lasting damage because you can always reload the version from before you made any changes. This means that you could completely break the system, then wipe it from the virtualizer and create a new one in its place. I'm sure this will come in handy during future modules and courses.

  1. Explain the terms “shell”, “terminal”, “cli”, and “command prompt”. Why are these still used today, when we have graphical interfaces?

    • Shell, terminal, and command prompt are all types of cli's or command line interfaces. The main reason these textual user interfaces are still used today, despite more user-friendly graphical interfaces, is because of their speed.

  2. What are the commands to change directories, list the file’s contents and rename/move files?

    • The command to change directories is "cd", to list a file's content is "ls", and the rename/move files is "mv".

  3. What are relative and absolute paths? What is special about starting with a ~ (tilde) or a ‘/’ character in the path?

    • A relative path is any command whose functionality depends on the current directory you're in. An absolute path is a command that will execute from anywhere, no matter what directory you're in. Using a ~ or a / tells the terminal to start from the home or the root directory respectively.

  4. Explain what Linux is, using anything except English.

    • Linux est un système d'exploitation open source basé sur le noyau Linux. Il a été créé par Linus Torvalds en 1991 et est distribué sous la licence GNU General Public License (GPL). Linux est utilisé dans une variété de domaines, y compris les serveurs, les ordinateurs personnels, les appareils embarqués, les supercalculateurs et plus encore. Il est connu pour sa stabilité, sa sécurité et sa flexibilité. De plus, il est pris en charge par une vaste communauté de développeurs et d'utilisateurs qui contribuent constamment à son développement et à son amélioration. Linux est également la base de nombreux systèmes d'exploitation populaires, tels qu'Ubuntu, Fedora et Debian, qui offrent des environnements de bureau conviviaux pour les utilisateurs. En résumé, Linux est un système d'exploitation puissant, polyvalent et open source qui offre de nombreuses options aux utilisateurs et aux développeurs.

Things I want to know more about

* I would like to learn and practice more Linux commands.
* Who can add to the major distros like Ubuntu or Kali? And how?

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