Linux Use for Developers Course Outline

Linux Use for Developers

• SESSION 1:  History of Linux
  • Unix
  • Other PC Freenix's
    (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD)
  • Linux

• SESSION 2:  Linux Today
  • Development Environment
  • Gnu and the Free Software Foundation
  • XFree86
  • Linux distributions
  • Linux resources
  • Licenses and legalities: GPL and OSS

• SESSION 3: Kernel and architecture
  • Kernel; what is in the kernel, what is not
  • Modules
  • Device Drivers
  • Building the Kernel

• SESSION 4: Installation of a Linux distribution
  • Preliminaries: Preparing the PC/Workstation for Linux
  • Stepping through the Installation
  • Basic system administration
  • Package selection

• SESSION 5: Customizing the Linux Desktop
  • Preliminaries: Relationship of operating system, window managers and Desktop Managers
  • Why do I have to know how to use the command line?
  • What is KDE?
  • What is GNOME?
  • Using and Customizing KDE

• SESSION 6: Clients, Servers, Window and Desktop Managers, and X basics
  • Virtual Terminals
  • Clients and Servers under X
  • OS, Kernel, X-Servers, Toolkits, Window and Desktop Managers
  • Starting, initializing, exiting X
  • Keys under X

• SESSION 7: Text Editing
  • Using Kedit
  • Using emacs
  • Using vi
  • Other available editors

• SESSION 8: Documentation
  • System Documentation (man, xman, info, help, /usr/doc, foo -h)
  • HOWTO's
  • Linux Documentation Project (LDP)

• SESSION 9: File system
  • The ext2 filesystem
  • Basic file system concepts
  • Filesystem layout
  • Mounting filesystems
  • NFS
  • Samba

• SESSION 10: Connections and Mail
  • Remote logins (telnet, rlogin, rsh)
  • Retrieving files (ftp, wget)
  • mail

• SESSION 11: File operations
  • Review of Some basics (environmental variables, running scripts vs. inclusion, special characters, redirection, piping)
  • Directories (mkdir, rmdir, cd, pwd, $PWD)
  • Listing (ls, df, du)
  • Copying, moving, linking, removing (cp, mv, ln, rm, touch)
  • Finding (find, locate, updatedb)
  • File types (file)
  • Users, passwords, groups (/etc/passwd and /etc/groups)
  • Permissions (chown, chgrp, chmod)

• SESSION 12: More file utilities
  • Searching for strings (grep)
  • Comparing files and patching (diff, diff3, cmp, patch)
  • Compression and archiving (zip/unzip, gzip/gunzip/gzexe, tar, cpio, dump)

• SESSION 13: Process control
  • Launching processes (&, at, cron)
  • Killing/resuming processes (kill, killall, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z, bg, fg)
  • Monitoring things (ps, pstree, top, xosview, xcpustate)

LINUX USE FOR DEVELOPERS

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