Linux Course » LP001 Linux in a Nutshell : Essentials

  Course Code:   LP001       
  Duration:  3 Days Pricing :  15,600 Baht (VAT Included)
  Course Description  
 

This is the first Linux course for people who have little or no experience and knowledge about the operating system. It is also a good course for those who want to review the basic Linux commands and how-to’s in case they have not used or installed Linux in a while. Upon finishing this course, students will become comfortable with the Linux environment and installation of other Linux based applications.


Audience

Students with little or no Linux knowledge or prior experience, or students who want to build user-level skills before getting deeper into Linux systems and network administration.


Prerequisites

User-level experience with any computer systems and an ability to use operating systems in standard desktop or workstation environments.


Purpose

The objective of this course is to teach students enough about Linux to successfully install, configure, administer, customize basic functions and run Linux operating system on a PC or a workstation along with other Linux applications.

Goal

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

 
  • Install Linux operating system
  • Configure and customize Linux operating system
  • Use Linux on a PC or Workstation for their daily work
  • Install and configure basic Linux applications

    • Course contents

    1.  Introduction
     
  • History and culture of Linux
  • GNU General Public License
  • Distributions of Linux
    • 2.  Installation of Linux Operating System
     
  • Planning and preparation of a system for installation
  • Partitions theory and disk partitioning
  • Step-by-step installation
    • 3.  Understanding of the Linux File System Hierarchical Structure
     
  • Directory structure
  • Typical file system layout
  • Mounting and unmounting file systems
    • 4.  Using the Linux Operating System
     
  • Multi-user and multi-tasking
  • Starting a Terminal and Virtual Terminal
  • Logging in and logging out
  • Changing password
    • 5.  Essential Linux Commands
     
  • Linux command prompt and syntax
  • Command format examples
  • Some basic Linux commands
  • Command History
    • 6.  Files and Directories
     
  • File types, filenames and pathnames
  • Working with files and directories such as creating, removing, moving, renaming, listing, displaying and changing the current directory
    • 7.  Understanding of Users, Groups and Files Access Permissions
     
  • User and group
  • Permission
  • Viewing and changing permissions
  • umask
    • 8.  Using I/O Redirection and Pipes
     
  • Input and output redirection
  • Error redirection
  • Combined redirection
  • Pipes
    • 9.  Find and Text Processing
     
  • Using find, grep, sort, locate, cut, paste, head and tail commands
  • Using which and whereis commands
    • 10.  Using Editor Tools
     
  • The vi text editor
  • Starting vi
    • 11.  Understanding Basic Shell Scripting
     
  • Shell functions
  • Using shell variables and shell scripting from Linux commands
  • Etc.
    • 12.  Using Linux with GNOME GUI
     
  • Xorg Server/Client architecture
  • X components
  • Desktop environments such as GNOME
    • 13.  Customizing the User Environment
     
  • Bash initialization
  • Login shell and non-login shell
  • GNOME and KDE customization
    • 14.  Investigation and Management of Linux Processes
     
  • Start/Stop, controlling and monitoring processes
  • Kill process signal
  • Managing process priority
  • Daemons
    • 15.  Working with Basic System Configuration and Basic Administration Tools
     
  • System configuration tools
  • Printer configuration
  • Soundcard configuration
  • Network configuration
    • 16.  Integrating Linux in a Windows Environment
     
  • Access files on Windows file systems
  • Mounting Windows file systems
  • Running Windows programs with Wine emulator
  • PC emulators such as VMWare, XEN virtualization and VirtualBox
    • 17.  Linux Documentation
     
  • The man command
  • The info command
  • HOWTO Documents
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