Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

[Tony Baechler <tony baechler net>]

Hi,

I won't quote Geoff's long, very informative and useful post here, but I 
would like to comment on a point. He suggests getting a VPS and I highly 
agree! They're incredibly cheap nowadays and often you can cancel after a 
month. You can try Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc, install anything you want, 
make a mess, format and start over. Since it isn't real hardware, you 
literally can't break anything. If you have a recent enough CPU and enough 
memory, play with KVM, VirtualBox, etc and set up your own virtual machines. 
That has the advantage that you don't need to worry about security and can 
experiment with web servers etc on your local machine without shelling out 
the cash for a VPS. If you can spare the disk space, do an actual Linux 
install on an extra partition and set up dual boot. That way you don't have 
the overhead of a VM. If there is a specific package you're interested in 
like WordPress, there are various ways of having automatic installs with 
minimal effort such as Juju charms on Ubuntu.