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Saiteja Vemula
7,162 PointsA doubt regarding TreeHouse's Console
TreeHouse's Console is based on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. What happens if I upgrade it to the latest version of Ubuntu by dist upgrade command? And if I upgrade and/or install few tools for practicing, will it consume my Internet Data or the TreeHouse's Internet Data?
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsYou can't do either of those things. You are not able to run anything but the commands Treehouse deems necessary for practicing coding. apt-get and similar commands are off limits, as they pose a security risk if you were allowed to use them.
Though to answer your last question, if Treehouse did allow users to use any command they wished, including commands like apt-get then using them would consume Treehouse's bandwidth, not your own. Since it's Treehouse's machines that would be downloading the upgrades and new apps, not your machine.
It's the same as using a VPS, with a VPS you rent access to a virtual machine on a server, and any commands executed on that machine that ends up consuming data will end up using that servers' bandwidth not your own, for the same reasons as stated above.
Saiteja Vemula
7,162 PointsBro,
- Workspaces are different from Console
- The console which they've provided didn't get reset. (It does shows the details such as Free Space, Swap, etc.. and free space remained the same before and after quitting from it. I've even installed gedit to find out if I can install programs. Found out that I can install CLI tools. GUI tools doesn't work.)
What if can I install Ubuntu-Desktop? Will I be able to use GUI?
Thanks again.
Saiteja Vemula
7,162 PointsSaiteja Vemula
7,162 PointsIt allowed me to do
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradeI didn't tried out dist-upgrade though. Thanks you Andren for answering me.
andren
28,558 Pointsandren
28,558 PointsAh, you are right. I was thinking of the console you normally get access to in most workspaces when doing things like Java, Python, ruby, etc programming. The console you are granted access to during the Development tools courses are a bit different.
That console is pretty much like the type of console you would get with a traditional VPS, I would guess that the virtual machine they give you access is reset after you are done working in it, so no change you make is actually permanently stored.
However most of what I stated above is still true, since you are asking a server Treehouse controls to fetch upgrades and data it is that machine that ends up consuming bandwidth when it downloads stuff, not your machine.