The Linux Beginner Boost is a quick start into the Linux world for absolute beginners with little or no Linux, terminal, or coding experience. All you need is a computer (we assume Mac or Windows since you are just starting out), a terminal (we use WezTerm), and a container engine (like Podman or Docker).

This repo contains a Linux Containerfile that contains a pre-configured Ubuntu Linux OS for sampling and learning.

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Here's the process to get started:

1. Install WezTerm (or another) terminal
2. Install Podman (or another) OCI container engine
3. Build and run this boost container locally

The easiest method is to just go to https://wezterm.org and click on your computer operating system to download the regular installer and run it. Note that you will need admin rights on your computer to install anything. If you know of other ways (including brew for Mac or winget for Windows) go for it.

The Wezterm default configuration is pretty good, but if you want a head start at your own configuration (which requires knowing a bit of Lua language) here's one that will work on any OS. Read the WezTerm help and instructions to know where to put the file.

Like WezTerm, the easiest method to install Podman is just to go to https://podman.io and follow the instructions to download and run the installer. Again, you'll need admin on your computer to do the installation. You can use brew or winget if you know how (but don't sweat it if you don't).

podman build -t boost https://github.com/rwxrob/boost.git
podman run -it --hostname boost --name boost boost

If you want to throw away the container after running just add --rm to the run command above. Otherwise, when you exit it will still be there and you can restart and attach later to continue your work until you explicitly remove it:

podman start -a boost

When you are ready to use the man pages consider running sudo unminimize.

• Customizing WezTerm
• Creating and customizing containers
• Kubernetes and "cloud native"
• Virtual machines and Proxmox
• Editor custom configuration
• ...