More love towards Linux

My journey towards AZ solution architect needs more hands own with Linux. So, today (still on PTO and recovering from a medical procedure) I decided to find my old HP Envy 2008, the one which I had abandoned and install Linux - Ubuntu Desktop version.

The process took me an hour:
1. downloaded Ubuntu iso image
2. decided  to burn the image to a CD. If you would like to flash to a USB drive, there are a lot of applications available (https://unetbootin.github.io/)
3. Updated BIOS settings to load from the internal CD drive.

Fun time with Linux

After suffering a lot of chronic sinus issues, I had decided to do a sinus endoscopic procedure. After that I took a few days off from wok. Apart from fun times with my kids, I felt a little bored and started to play around with Linux as my first step towards AZ SA certification.

As the first step, I tried to install Centos on my laptop using Virtual box. Since its a new machine, I haven't installed Linux distro and planning to do that for the last few months.

When I opened virtual box, the 64 bit variant is missing and the below two steps bring back the 64 bit option.

1. enable Virtualization from the BIOS (based on the laptop model - for HP spectra series use esc key and F10.)
2. Turn off hyper V feature from windows features (turn windows features on or off)

More details can be found here - http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2014/11/virtualbox-showing-32-bit-guest-versions-64-bit-host-os/#.XUmqVvZFzOZ