--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> I'm still mystified as to why you would wish to run a CLI-only distro, VM or not.
Something tells me the server running this website probably doesn't even have a monitor attached to it, let alone a GUI!
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> After all, a CLI window can be opened easily in any version of Linux of which I am aware and the results would be pretty much the same.
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> The only advantage running any OS in a VM would be to gain experience using the VM, unless I'm missing something here.
Have you ever run Arch? You load it up and there is nothing, no documentation, no way of reading it even if it was there! So your choices are 1 print out the entire getting started, 2 have another machine right next to yours to use, or 3 run it in a VM to get going. OK I guess there is a 4th even sillier choice which would be to jog to another machine with a clay tablet and a stylus, which is probably what the Arch developers expect you to do ...
At least that is how it looked to me in the 5 minutes Arch graced one of my systems here. I'm just too old to jog down 2 flights of stairs to the next PC I have running!
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> Mint would be perfectly capable of going as far with CLI knowledge as one might wish--although for anyone seeking Linux certification, there might be value in gaining experience with other, somewhat dissimilar distros.
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> David
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Think beyond the desktop, that is about the only place Linux has gained any traction. I never heard Linux ever had more than a 1.4% share of the desktop market and last I heard Linux has dropped to a .8% share. So its not like things are picking up. But hey over 80% of the worlds fastest supercomputers ain't doing Windows, or much of anything other than Linux these days!
Paul
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