Linux and Open Source Projects
System administration is a job that requires the right tools to achieve the required process optimization. To administrate GNU/Linux-based systems, you must have a workstation that facilitates this aforementioned optimization. A Linux workstation provides many advantages in this regard. In my experience, Fedora Linux, a community-developed distribution sponsored by Red Hat, has a recommended set of tools for Linux-based system administration.
Before learning how to configure a workstation for system administration, we’ll review the history of this operating system so that we have a better context and, above all, know how we can help develop the distribution so that we can improve it.
In this chapter, we will learn a little more about the following:
- A brief history of Linux
- Understanding Linux distributions
- The Fedora Project
- The command-line interface
- Desktop environments
Let’s get started!
