# Chapter 1

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<summary>Setting Up a Learning Space</summary>

1. Your learning space needs to be an environment where you can freely explore Linux and its various distributions (called distros for short) and utilities
2. We will focus on only a few, such as setting up:
   1. Linux on an old laptop
   2. implementing a virtualized environment
   3. using the cloud
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4. Hypervisors or virtual machine managers - free virtualization products
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