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Restarting r610 lab after 5yr, need project ideas for learning Linux (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by I3igAl@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hi all! I am restarting my homelab after years ignoring it. I have a Dell r610, I realize its old and shitty but it's what I have for now. I just upgraded it with a pair of L5640 hexacores and 192gb ram for $45. I have gotten every firmware up to date and I have installed ProxMox 8.

I am labbing in order to learn more deeply the workings of windows in a business environment. I am going to set up my own domain and work through AD and related things. I need these skills for a hopeful job in IT, starting at Tier1. I sold myself well enough to land a T1/2 level job but they let me go after a week when we both realized how little I was proficient in.....

However I also want to learn Linux, I have an incredibly basic level of understanding and want to get to a point where i'm comfortable in the CLI instead of blindly following youtube tutorials. I can spin up a VM no problem but once im in I am lost outside the desktop environment. For instance I tried to add a new user on the Prox install so I wasn't logged in as root, and ran into so many issues because sudo was not installed, then my new user wasnt covered in sudoer.

What kind of projects can I do to learn linux outside sitting in the KDE desktop?

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[–] sundaylab@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's exactly that what makes you learn. Trying to create a user, adding them to a group. We all started like this.

Try to setup a little webserver that serves a wordpress site. You will have to install all needed applications and modules to make it work including nginx, mysql database, php and so on and configure some of those services using a text editor. Stuck? Use Google or DuckDuckGo like i do to get answers.

Little by little you'll get there.