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Know the terminal – This is obviously the most powerful tool you need to master.
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Know how to build applications – in every operating system
you will definitely find
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Applications. Knowing how to install and use them the right way is essential.
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Every distribution comes with a document. Make it a habit of reading this will help you
master the basics in that distribution or any other for that matter.
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Keep learning Gentoo skills to improve on what you do not know. This way, it helps you
master the basics faster.
Linux mint – it is a widely used operating system with many users using it. It was launched in 2006
and having a computer themed desktop version. This can be a good operating system for beginners
since it has good usability, easy for them to begin .
Linux mint has been built among other software layers
such as the Linux Kernel, and cinnamon
desktop. In relation to this, you may find that it relies on an operating system such as Ubuntu and
Debian as its system base. The main goal for Linux mint is to create a usable environment for users
while using their desktops to perform tasks.
The goal of the day is to create a simplified user interference that allows companies and business-
people to upgrade their skills. Therefore, giving the targeted users the
opportunity to expand their
knowledge on the advanced technologies instead of simplifying things. It provides them with the
freedom to improvise their ideas on the real desktop.
Editors
This one is a release that is done in Linux mint to help modify to suit a particular need. Some of the
popular editions that you are used by hackers are:
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VIM – You may find it’s getting boring using default “vi” editor as your main editor.
Worry not, because VIM gives you the best performance with many options to choose from.
The word VIM means “vi improved” just its pronunciation meaning an editor improvised to
suit the need of a developer.
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Geany - It is among the top used editors by Linux developers with the integration of the
GTK+ toolkit. It is an editor that supports many programming languages.
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Kwrite – It was first developed by KDE and later released in the year 2000. With its main
aim to help edit remote files and encode your files.
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Nano – It is a known editor used mostly used with UNIX operating system. It was first
released in 2000 with many additional functionalities in it a powerful text editor. Something
else is that it can only run using a command-line only.
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GNUS Emacs – It is the oldest text editor in the Linux environment that you can use as
your editor. The editor was developed by
a man called Richard Stall Man, who is also the
project founder of GNU. The good thing with this operating
system is that many
programmers have used it and have been proven to work well with almost all programming
languages.
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Gedit – If you have happened to use GNOME you’ve probably used this text editor
because it comes as a default editor.
Its first release was
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Kate – Kubuntu operating system comes with Kate as a default editor. With this editor, you
are able to work on many files to do your editing. Something fun about this editor i that it
supports many languages as it auto-detects languages.
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Eclipse – This editor is mostly used by design and end developers who are looking forward
to coming up with a robust of exciting coding. For experienced
hackers with different
knowledge of programming languages, can use this editor to improvise on their editing.
