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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:19:16 +0100
From:      Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mininal skills
Message-ID:  <CAEJNuHz4_OALKm%2BGPPvH0cTw58D6vpxfP4orkEZeWjsZye1FWA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200604103920.20ee2d27@archlinux>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 09:39, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:04:45 +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> >Install, uninstall, break, fix, reinstall, configure.
>                      ^^^^^ :D
>                      I don't know what this is. Never happened to me.
>
> For those who "decide" to "break", first becoming familiar with backup
> strategies might be a good idea.

You missed the "do it in a VM first". If you've never broken a system
maybe it's because you haven't tried hard.

By being able to use virtualisation, one also picks other skills. I've
learnt a lot by using qemu, setting up virtual serial consoles,
virtual interfaces, ssh forwarding, etc. Things you can not usually do
on bare metal.

-- 
Ottavio Caruso



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