VM Test Activity

Goal

  • All the activities in this lab should be executed reliably with minimal slow downs with a virtual machine that meets the following criteria:

  • CPU: 2 Cores
  • RAM: 4 GB
  • HDD: 50 GB

Applications installed:

  • Code Editor: VS Code
  • Text Editor: Geany
  • Web Browser: Firefox, Librewolf, Chromium

Test 1: Creating Markdown Documents

  1. Download or clone this github repository: https://github.com/ra559/markdown-test
  2. Open the directory in vs code
  3. Create a markdown file called: husky.md
  4. Use the text in the husky.txt file to create the husky.md file.
  5. The document should contain as much markdown format as possible.
  6. Convert the document to pdf
  7. Convert the document to html
  8. Preview the pdf file in vs code
  9. Preview the html file using live server

were you able to complete this test without major slowdowns?

Test 2: Basic Website

  1. Open the markdown-test directory from the previous test in vs code
  2. Add some css and bootstrap to the html
  3. Add some javascript
  4. Preview the website with live preview

Were you able to complete this test without major slowdowns?

Test 3: Basic Jekyll Site

  1. Use this guide to install Jekyll
  2. Use this guide to create your jekyll site.
  3. Add some entries to your site
  4. Constantly server your site with --trace enabled.

Were you able to complete this test without major slowdowns?

Test 3: Terminal + Vs Code + Web Browser

  1. Use this Linux FS guide to practice some commands.
  2. Create a markdown file and take screenshots.
  3. Add the screenshots to the markdown file and convert the file to pdf

Were you able to complete this test without major slowdowns?