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In this project, we get started with an exploration of installing, setting up, and configuring our own Linux Desktop.

In UNIX/Linux Fundamentals, we explored the system from the perspective primarily of a user, and mildly as a developer. Administration-style activities were not covered. That is what we are doing in this class.

As an educational first foray into this administrative realm, also enabling a nice hands-on review of so much of the user-style activities covered in the previous course, I'd like you to install, setup, and configure a Linux Desktop distribution on one of the LAIR project machines.

There are many distributions of Linux available, as well as other UNIX-like systems (such as the BSDs). If you have never played with an OS install before, I'd recommend something like Ubuntu or Mint. For the more experienced, perhaps check out something like Debian, Slackware, Arch, OpenBSD, or Devuan.

You will need to download the appropriate installation media (boot from USB? CD? Network? These are questions that will need to be answered).

You should also document your journey, be it on your journal or some wiki page under your userspace. Think of it as a HOWTO document, that you or someone else could use to follow in order to get a functioning desktop up and running for that particular distribution and version.

Take note of any particulars being used (hardware, distro, version, software selection).

Ideally, once complete, you should be able to wipe your finished product clean, and by following the directions in your HOWTO, replicate the process and successfully arrive at the same end result. (That will probably be the second project: verifying the correctness and readability of your HOWTO).