Ubuntu : The beginning

I started by downloading both virtual machine software and Ubuntu for this assignment. I chose Oracle's VM virtualbox because we had used it in class and I was most familiar with it, although their are alternatives.  (http://lifehacker.com/5714966/five-best-virtual-machine-applications)

Once they were installed I set up the virtual machine by setting the amount of virtual RAM and hard drive space i would give it. I chose 2 GB of RAM just to make sure everything ran smoothly and 15 GB. I then selected Ubuntu as the operating system and launched Oracle.

Once Ubuntu was up and running I launched the terminal from Dash Home.

 I then began to create folders for all the classes I had attended at UB using the "mkdir" command as well as the "cd .." command to navigate through the folders. Something that I found was very important when typing commands is spacing and capitalization. Everything must be typed exactly so or the command won't work.

Once I had finished the folder structure i installed Apache onto Ubuntu using the command "sudo apt-get install apache2". I also tested to see if my web server was working by going to the web address http://loaclhost.

To capture the output into a .txt file I had to uninstall apache2 for it to work. Using the command "sudo apt-get --purge remove apache2" and "apt-get remove apache2-common" i removed the files then captured the output into a .txt file by using the "sudo apt-get install apache2>Apache.txt " command.

 I then saved the output of this year's calendar and a month of the calendar into a .txt file using the "cal -y>2013Calendar.txt" and "cal -h>2013March.txt" command.