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A Linux Foundation
This comprehensive two-day course aims to
equip the novice Linux user with all the skills necessary to navigate
the system and make productive use of the tools available, including
the
Windows systems, the vi editor and essential Linux commands. It also
forms the necessary foundation for subsequent Linux courses.
Our Linux courses are suitable training for Linux LPI or RedHat Certification
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
A foundation course to get trainees
confident in day-to-day Linux use. This course provides all the
knowledge that applications users will need and forms a good grounding
for the power user or administrator who will go on to take other
courses.
*see note at bottom for special savings!
for pricing for a course run especially for your organisation, please
use our worksheet **Also available on your site for groups of four to
ten.
COURSE DATES:
June 2008
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INTENSITY: About 30% of the course is
practicals, and 70% lectures.
RESOURCE: Each student will have
exclusive use of a Linux workstation for the duration of the course.
Each student will be provided with a full set of training notes
relating
to the course, and quick reference cards to assist with file editing
and
Linux commands.
PREREQUISITES: This course is
suitable for new computer users and those who are using Linux for the
first time. Previous experience with an interactive computer system is
desirable but not essential. If you have previous experience of any
other version(s) of Unix (e.g. Solaris), the follow up courses
described
in the next paragraph may be more appropriate. Please call for advice
if
in doubt.
FOLLOW UPS: First Alternative offers
a number of Linux courses. A natural follow-up to this Introduction
course would be the Linux
Utilities
and Shell Programming (suitable for those who wish to become
proficient with Linux utilities and Bash shell programming) course. If
you are responsible for looking after day-to-day administration, then
we
can offer Linux System
Administration (Part 1) and Linux
System Administration (Part 2) courses.
We also offer many Internet / Intranet
courses such as:
Perl Programming and other Perl courses
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with their own set of training notes for the material
covered; around 120 pages per day of training.
| Every student who attends this course
will be issued with a signed certificate of course completion, which we
will be happy to "authenticate" upon future request. |
| On this course, we hand out a number
of quick reference sheets to each student on subjects such as vi and
Linux commands. |
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The examples from this course are available (via
the internet) to students who have attended.
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SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
suitable for Linux on any platforms. We use the CentOS and Redhat
versions
of Linux.
COURSE PROFILES: During the course,
the student will learn from many practical examples written for this
course and supplied in the manual. For ease of use during and after the
course, we have provided these examples online.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Linux/UNIX overview
What are Linux and Unix? Advantages and disadvantages. Basic command
examples. Other versions of Unix. Future of Linux. Availability,
licensing and support.
Getting started
Logging in and out. Keyboard basics. Files, directories and path names.
Creating and examining files. Effective use of directories. Moving,
copying and removing files. Basic system password security.
Documentation and the man command. Common problems.
The vi editor
Invoking vi. Insert and Append. Moving around the text. Deleting text.
Change operators. Other insert operators. Searching for text. Search
and
replace. Saving and quitting.
The next stage
Introduction to Linux shells. Bash shell interaction. Re-direction and
piping. Shell metacharacters. The history mechanism, and command line
editing facilities. The shell quoting mechanism. Setting up and using
aliases. Process control. More complex copying and moving. Protecting
files and directories. Shell variables and setting up the environment.
Environment variables. Introduction to Linux utilities such as grep,
gawk, sort and find.
Windows Environments
A guide to the window Managers available under Linux. Graphical login,
and starting windows from the command line. An examination of
the major tools available. Front Panel, File Managers, and the Help
system. Other useful window utilities and tools. Customising the
Workspace and setting basic user preferences.
Introduction to networking
Introduction to network concepts. Ethernet overview. Network basic
commands (including logging in to other machines). Network File System
(NFS) - overview, benefits and uses. Web browsers and web servers
technical overview.
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