On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 11:08 -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote:
On 12/31/2012 10:14 AM, Derek Stewart wrote:
Just joinedthe mailing list I am new to Centos, anybody got any tips.
My suggestion would be to install centos and start configuring it to do everything you want it to do. It might take some time, so you might want to install it on another computer or on a virtual machine.
Agree, just dive in.
+1 on the advice to create a virtual machine an learn there. After your initial install create a snapshot, then you can easily revert to a bare-bones clean install and practice doing things over and over. You can also revert between snapshots to work on different things. This really helps learning and testing. My rule: if I haven't created a snapshot yet... I am probably tardy in doing so.
If you're running a 64 bit version of Linux on a computer with virtual- ization support enabled, consider using KVM for a virtual environment. Otherwise consider installing VirtualBox. Either one will let you create a VM for experimentation while you keep your main workstation fully functional.
I'm still a fan of good old $$$ VMware Workstation. But VirtualBox works. And GNOME3 now provides Boxes as well, a nice VM management front-end.