Showing posts with label screencasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screencasts. Show all posts

Free Open Source Screencasts for Linux System Administrators and Newbies alike

There has always been a dearth in quality training material in Linux System Administration. And if there are resources on the Net, they are hard to find. Now here is a new venture by John Yerhot who endevours to provide very well made videos which explain how to use different commands in Linux, useful to people who administer Linux servers.

FOSSCasts are short, free screencasts covering Linux, Unix, and Open Source software in general. Each episode is under 10 minutes and covers a different piece of Open Source software or a set of tips and tricks novice and seasoned veterans will both find useful.

The videos are available for download in two formats namely - Ogg Theora and Apple Quicktime. I checked out the latest episode - Sysstat Part 1 : vmstat & iostat; and the quality of the screencast is stellar.

The site is still in its inception stage and so you will find only a couple of screencasts at present. But their schedule is to provide one new screencast per week.

Do check out the screencasts - It is a job well done.

Screencast - Install OpenSolaris in VirtualBox

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Installing OpenSolaris on your machine may require some gentle hand holding if you are a first time user of the operating system. More so if you are thinking of installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. But help is at hand. I came across an exceptionally done screencast which walks you through installing and configuring VirtualBox in Windows, and then installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox.


The screencast is divided into 7 parts namely -
  • Introduction
  • Getting the software - OpenSolaris & VirtualBox
  • Installing VirtualBox
  • Creating a Virtual Machine
  • Starting OpenSolaris LiveCD in VirtualBox
  • Installing OpenSolaris
  • Guest Additions.
If you are wondering ... Installing Guest Additions will allow you to move your mouse pointer seamlessly between the host and the guest operating system.

At the end of the screencast, you get a link to another screencast which explain how to install additional packages in OpenSolaris the easy way.

Watch the full screencast.

This screencast could come in handy in installing any of the offshoots of OpenSolaris such as Belenix, Nexenta, and SchilliX.

 
 
 
 
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