From the course: Cert Prep LPIC-1 Exam 102 (Version 5.0)

What you should know - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Cert Prep LPIC-1 Exam 102 (Version 5.0)

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] For this course we'll be using CentOS 7 Enterprise Linux, which is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as well as Ubuntu 19.04 running in VirtualBox virtual machines. In this course, when I refer to Enterprise Linux 7, I mean Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or CentOS 7 Enterprise Linux. Anything we do on one will work on the other. When I refer to Ubuntu, I really mean Debian-based distributions. This could include Debian and Linux Mint. For this course we'll install Linux in VirtualBox virtual machines. There are versions of VirtualBox for Windows, macOS, Solaris, and various Linux distributions. For this course, I'll be running VirtualBox on a Linux host. In order to run virtual machines for this course, you'll need a computer with an Intel or AMD 64-bit CPU with virtualization support. Intel CPUs with virtualization support will be advertised as having VT-x and AMD calls it AMD-V. You will also need a 64-bit host OS. If you're using Linux, this is automatic. If you're using Windows, make sure you have a 64-bit version of that OS. If your OS is 64-bit, then you'll want to download the 64-bit version of VirtualBox as well. For this course, you may also want to have high speed internet for downloading ISO images and doing Linux operating system software updates. You will also want to have 32 to 50 gigabytes of free hard drive space minimum. This will provide enough space for two CentOS 7 Linux guest VMs and one Ubuntu 19.04 guest VM. If you have more free space available, it can give you more flexibility for creating additional guest VMs or giving your VMs larger virtual hard drives. To run more than one VM at a time, you'll need to have at least four gigabytes of free system memory if you're Linux as your host OS. If you're using Windows as a host OS, I recommend eight gigabytes of RAM minimum. Notice that these hardware requirements are not that large. Most computers built in the last 10 years will work fine.

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