Chapter 1

Preparing Your Environment

Setting Up a Learning Space

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

3. 
4. Hypervisors or virtual machine managers - free virtualization products