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Well i said i am new because, i need some insight on other Distro .
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Quote from: Yet on September 06, 2012, 04:07:45 PM
Well i am planing of learning pentest but i just keep having problem with Fedora, maybe i can go with Arch Linux or Puppy .
Not knowing how new you are to Linux, I've heard quite a few people recommend Mint for someone coming straight from a Windows background.
An advantage of learning a Debian based distro is that Backtrack is currently Debian (Ubuntu) based.
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Quote from: Yet on September 06, 2012, 04:58:44 PM
Well i said i am new because, i need some insight on other Distro .
If your goal is to learn, then try them all for a month or two until you're familiar with them. At some point you'll figure out which one you prefer and then you can use that. I use Ubuntu these days but I wouldn't recommend it if your goal is to learn Linux. I'd rather you start with something more bare bones and go through the pain of setting up everything so you learn how it works. When I started off, it was with Slackware, then RedHat, then Gentoo, and then Ubuntu.
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It was Yggdrasil for me. Talk about doing things manually
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It was Yggdrasil for me. Talk about doing things manually
Nice. My Linux choices early on were limited to whatever came packaged in Infomagic CD cases.
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Quote from: Yet on September 06, 2012, 04:58:44 PM
Well i said i am new because, i need some insight on other Distro .
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maybe I'm really just a gray beard in disguise.
Day to day I run Debian on all systems. Some have XFCE some have Gnome2 (those will be XFCE soon). I have several CentOS based virtual test boxes, since I found those in the enterprise (used to be an enterprise Linux admin). My web / mail server runs debian command line only.
I also have a sun ultra Sparc kicking round with Solaris 8 on it, at least I don't think I upgraded to Solaris 10. The ELA job we had Sparc stations I had to maintain too, but have had my sun box since 1999.
I also have a couple of BSD virtuals.
If you really want to learn, try to avoid a gui as much as possible. Not saying they're bad, but if you're serious about learning linux you need to know what is under the hood.
Oh, and learn to compile from source / tarball.
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I'm relatively new to linux, started with Ubunutu and Mepis, been running BT4 and 5 as my main OS to force myself to learn how to do basic things with it in addition to all the tools.
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I'm relatively new to linux, started with Ubunutu and Mepis, been running BT4 and 5 as my main OS to force myself to learn how to do basic things with it in addition to all the tools.
Considering that it wasn't designed to be a day to day operating system that sounds painful. Are you using it as a desktop or just a server where the fun lives?
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Quote from: jjwinter on September 07, 2012, 09:30:49 AM
I'm relatively new to linux, started with Ubunutu and Mepis, been running BT4 and 5 as my main OS to force myself to learn how to do basic things with it in addition to all the tools.
You may already know this but I'd suggest being careful using Backtrack as your main OS. Backtrack by design runs as root, and running as root can be dangerous from both a usage and security perspective.
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I've done this in the past and just locked down SSH and created a lower privileged user, modify visudo, etc. Even doing so, you are running a crapton of services and often times older vulnerable versions of software. I'd be very careful here. You will get the same benefit from just running Ubuntu. I'd recommend running Ubuntu as baremetal OS and then running a BT5 VM or booting off USB/DVD when you need it.
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I initially used it for everything, just to get used to the interface, learning how to install and update new stuff, manage files, find where stuff lives, get comfortable with the command line. All my important stuff I've got in Dropbox, email via webmail, so if I screw it badly reloading is fine.
Using it as my main OS for awhile was really the only way I was going learn it.
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Did you at least harden it? lower privileged account, firewall, disable un-needed services, etc? (ok bad plug for my derbycon talk).
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Hey cool, you've got the nap slot. I'll have to be sure to drop in
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For now i am using Debian to be honest Linux is for Pro i am bleeding my head out cause it's incomplete, Fedora was a bit easier to use .
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No, I didn't harden it at all, just dove right in total noob style. I learned about what to tweak later on. Not storing any gold bars on it, and it really just gets use in my home office / lab / mess.
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