By jbdough
heyas all -
I’ve been running Linux on my local machines for almost 10 years, and am just now venturing out from shared hosting to VPS. I used the DO tutorials for a long time before spinning up my first droplet.
Just a suggestion to help those who are new to the terminal prompt:
sudo apt-get install mc
Once you get familiar with it I think you’ll find it makes many tasks very easy. I’ll often sudo mc to move and edit files as root. Be careful doing that!
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Thanks for the suggestion. By default we try to keep our images as close to the OEM versions as possible so we generally avoid installing extra packages.
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