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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By : Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By: Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Overview of this book

<p>System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.<br /><br />"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.<br /><br />You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.</p> <p><br />Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.</p> <p><br />Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Booting Linux Mint


Once the installation process finishes, it's time to boot your operating system for the first time. You will not have to configure anything else, but you should learn how to boot and log in to the system before learning more about Linux Mint.