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Course Syllabus
Getting Going with Linux™


A good, solid introductory course to Linux.  Unlike introductory Unix courses which pre-suppose a working system at the start, this course starts off with a bare PC and installs Linux from scratch.  After getting used to the commands and facilities, the course finishes with a slightly tailored version of our basic system administration course.

Intended for anybody that wants to get up and running with Linux in a short space of time.

* Introduction - Versions, features and concepts
* Installation - Hardware Considerations, disk partitioning
- System configuration, accounts
- Automated installation with Kickstart
* Getting Started - Logging in and out
* Workstations - Linux Desktops, Gnome and KDE
- Running applications
- The terminal window, shells, command line format
- Help Screens and Manual pages
- The X-Window system
- Remote display of windows
* Files - Filenames and Pathnames, wildcards, the file system tree,
- Links to files
- Directories; Manipulating, listing
- Access permissions ( chmod )
- File manipulation ( cp, mv, rm etc.)
- X-Window File Managers
- Viewing files ( more, cat, etc.)
* Editors - Simple use of vi
- Window based editors
* Linux Utilities - The find command
- Mail programs
- Pattern extractors (grep, cut, diff)
- Backup / Archiving with tar
- The ftp file transfer program
* I/O Redirection - Principles, importance
- Pipes & Filters
* Processes - Concepts
- Creating background processes, Job Control
- Process Status ( ps )
- Killing Processes, Signals
* Basic System Admin. - Overview, Responsibilities
- The Super User Account
- System Administration Tools
- System Logs
* Managing Users - The password and group files
- The passwd command
* Processes - Overview, listing with ps, killing with kill
* Startup and Shutdown - System Startup, Run Levels
- The inittab and rc files, checking tools
- System Shutdown
* Clocks - Dates, Times and Time zones
- The cron clock daemon
* Printers (CUPS or LPRng) - Overview
- Adding and managing printers
- Local and Remote Printers
* Disks and File Systems - Partitioning, mounting
- Unix File Systems, structure
- checking with fsck, df, quot
- Backing up with tar, cpio
- Package Management

 

Notes

  1. All participants receive printed notes which include all the slides plus additional material.
  2. Ideally, each student should have their own machine to work on.
  3. The length of the Course is normally three or four days.