Intro to Linux - Skillswap

Intro to Linux - Skillswap

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  Linux @twombh TomBuckley-Houston
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  Thanks | Evening| Future ● @PMStudioUK ● @iamdanw Next Skillswap: @garybristow Progressive ● ● @spyou ● @amias Enhancement ● @jmoverley Drinks in the Watershed afterwards
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  Linux for webdevelopers Dev environment: Historical/Architectural: ● Everything apart from PS ● 60% websites, 25% mobile ● Wine, GIMP ● Google, Facebook, etc ● Java apps: Aptana/Netbeans ● Linux descended from UNIX, ● Better LAMP computer science, ARPANET, ● General daily usage etc. More of a direct lineage ● Philosophical reasons than Windows.
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  Computing Eden ● 1960s America, UNIX, C, ARPANET ● MIT, Bell Labs. ● Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson.
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  The UNIX Way “Writeprograms that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.” ● The human dimension. ● Command Line Interface - CLI. ● Analogy to modern web standards; REST, W3C, etc.
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  Richard Stallman ● Early 1980s ● GNU: GNU's Not Unix! ● Almost made a kernel ● The GPL ● Free as in speech, not free as in beer. ● Free to do whatever you want as long as that doesn't restrict someone else doing the same. (eg; Red Hat)
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  Compulsory XKCD
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  Linus Torvalds ● 1991, doing a masters in Computer Science at Helsinki. ● MINIX but better license. ● The Linux Kernel.
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  LAMP Hello World ● You've got a server out there somewhere. ● SSH and SSH keys. ● `ssh tom@myserver.com' ● `aptitude update' Compare with Windows ● `aptitude install apache2 mysql5-server php5 apache2-mod-php php5-mysql' ● `curl localhost' “It Works!”
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  Apache's Vhosts Quick wayin a local environment: Just Proper way in production environment: Lots shive loads of definitions in the same of files that you can individually turn on and off. file. `nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/website' `nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhosts' NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName myserver.com ServerName myserver.com DocumentRoot /var/www/website DocumentRoot /var/www/website </VirtualHost> </VirtualHost> `sudo a2ensite website' Creates a symbolic link from; `sudo service apache2 restart' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/website `sudo service apache2 restart'
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  Uploading your project without FTP! ● `scp -r myproject/* tom@myserver.com:/var/www/website' ● `rsync -rv myproject/* tom@myserver.com:/var/www/website' ● `git push'