Day 1: Getting Started.

I finally got my Linux textbook late yesterday, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so I'm finally ready to get started with my introductory Linux class, starting with this blog. My assignment for this week, so far, is mainly just getting this blog going and reading chapters 1-3 of the book. We won't actually be using Fedora or Red Hat, but will be using Ubuntu instead, which I actually used very briefly for an introductory CIT course I had my first semester of college. Of course, I remember very little about that first experience, so this will all still feel mostly brand new to me. I'm primarily taking this Linux class because of my interest in Cisco, which is my main focus of study in getting my CIT associate degree in networking. As best I understand it, the Cisco IOS is Linux based, and since I want to be Cisco certified it makes sense for me to try learning something about Linux as well.