I always find myself telling people to just download Linux. This usually follows up with “which distribution” and i’ll recommend a couple but always end with “try a few and see which one you like best – it’s all personal preference!”.
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Installing via USB is much better/easier than via cd/dvd simply because it’s not going to get scratched up, you can easily carry it around with you to loan to friends, etc..
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By now, if you’ve played around with CentOS 7 (or RHEL 7), you’ve heard that there are now systemd commands you can start using to start, restart and stop various services. They still have the ‘service’ command included for backwards compatibility, but that may go away in future releases. Here’s a little tutorial to help you learn the systemd commands!
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Often, you’ll want to use cron to schedule daily, weekly, hourly (etc…) tasks on your linux system(s). cPanel has a little GUI for it, but since I don’t trust GUIs very often, I like just doing it the ‘old fashioned’ way. This little guide will hopefully help you to figure out cron once and for all.
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