Well, you already have a laptop, so here’s a rough outline. Do research around each topic, instead of just doing them, as you’ll learn things that you can use as a basis for the next step.
Install some form of Linux, either desktop or server distro. Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.
Learn how to SSH into it, and install packages from the default repos.
Install a web server, such as nginx and get a html page to show up on your PC when you enter the IP address of the server (the laptop is now called the server at this point - servers are any computer that you use to run unattended services from other computers, so laptops can be called servers too)
Install a recursive DNS server and configure your router to advertise it during DHCP.
Using the now working DNS server, get that same html file to show up on your PC by entering a custom name in your browser (something like http://mylaptopserver.local/
Yes but for a complete beginner, the first project won’t last too worryingly long anyway, so better to learn and have fun. Even a stock graphical Ubuntu install could act as a server and it would have at least something familiar to help manage someone’s first server.
Like, I’m never gonna say to someone new that they need to do what I do and use their customised coreos image haha
Could you suggest me ways how l can create a hands on project ?
Well, you already have a laptop, so here’s a rough outline. Do research around each topic, instead of just doing them, as you’ll learn things that you can use as a basis for the next step.
Debian would be handier for servers, OpenSUSE is handier for sysadmin stuff, iirc.
Yes but for a complete beginner, the first project won’t last too worryingly long anyway, so better to learn and have fun. Even a stock graphical Ubuntu install could act as a server and it would have at least something familiar to help manage someone’s first server.
Like, I’m never gonna say to someone new that they need to do what I do and use their customised coreos image haha