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Linux-fundamentals courses




We offer a generic modularised Linux-fundamentals course covering all major ares of configuring and applying Linux-machines. The components of the course are illustrated below in figure linux-fundamentals1.


Figure linux-fundamentals1: The components of b-lux Linux-fundamentals course.

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The major parts of the course include:

Part1: Installing Linux: (3-4 seminars) and Linux-based programs

To-hard-disk installation of Linux to x-86 based machines:
  1. Installing community-based distributions:Fedora, Debian and Gentoo Linux(es),
  2. installing commonly available commercial Linux distributions; SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Slackware Linux,
  3. installing programs from source code,
  4. removing programs previously installed from-source-code,
  5. installing/un-installing programs from binary package managers (rpm and deb).
Optional 1: To-hard-disk installation of Linux to ppC based machines:(1-2 seminars lab/lecture):
Optional 2: Network based Installation (2-3 seminars lab/lecture)

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Part 2: The Linux kernel/machine startup: (2-3 seminars)

2a: Exploring the Linux kernel:
  1. The kernel source code,
  2. kernel configuration, building and installation,
  3. device-drivers modules,
  4. loading and un-loading device-driver modules.
2b: Machine startup and initialisation
  1. The init program,
  2. run-levels,
  3. boot-loaders,
  4. booting with and without initial ram-disk,
  5. booting modern Linux machines and UDEV.

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Part 3: Machine administration(2-3 seminars)

  1. User and group administration,
  2. file permissions,
  3. local and network printing with CUPS,
  4. finding, using and providing documentation,
  5. backup using various open-source programs,
  6. scheduling using cron and related utilities,
  7. managing log-files, logrotate etc.,
  8. managing time on Linux machines.

Part 4: Linux files-systems: and file-system devices (2-3 seminars)

  1. Features of common Linux file-systems,
  2. commands and options for creating/destroying file-systems of various types,
  3. maintaining file-systems with fsck utilities,
  4. mounting file-systems,
  5. network-based file-systems,
  6. the loopback file-system,
  7. implementing Linux 'soft' RAID,
  8. file-systems on magneto-optical medium,
  9. file-systems on flash-memory,
  10. modern device management with devfs/devfsd and UDEV.

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Part 5: Shells and shell programming (2-3 seminars):

  • Unix shells,
  • customizing the shell environment,
  • setting paths,
  • the bash shell,
  • commands for file and directory modifications,
  • using find,
  • creating and changing hard and symbolic links,
  • regular expression,
  • processing text-streams using filters,
  • controlling Linux processes,
  • commands for file-streams, pipes, and re-direction,
  • shell programming,
  • making a shell script executable,
  • example shell scripts.

Course duration and certification:

The 'minimum-version' of the course covers 6 seminars (2 days). This can rise to ~ 15 sessions (1 week). For those interested in certification, A part of this course mirrors the requirement of the LPI-101 and LPI102 as well as the SAIR LCA-system administration. Details of the LPI and SAIR programs are available from the LPI and SAIR web-sites respectively. There are also large areas particularly on file-systems and device management in modern Linux in our course beyond these certification syllabuses.

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Bundled with our Linux-fundamentals course:
We offer:
  1. Two modern text-book on Linux system-administration, the Linux kernel and shells/shell-programming, These are from Pearson publishers (the largest of the computer-bookpublishers and with whom we collaborate with),
  2. modern releases of Fedora Linux, Debian Sarge, (non-commercial) and and SuSE Linux/professional edition or Mandrake Linux/powerpack edition.
Skills acquired from our Linux-fundamentals courses:
Skills acquired from the b-lux Linux-fundamentals courses include:

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Type 2: Flexible Linux-fundamentals courses/consultancy:

We are flexible and can tailor a course to suite your needs. So if you have an application where fairly rigorous knowledge of how Linux machines work and are configured please contact us stating the application(s) you have in mind. You can contact us using the contact-us link or communicate your needs by filling out a form. If we can, we will tailor the appropriate training and post-training regimes. We have excellent links with groups and companies in the Linux community. So if we do not have the type of expertise you require, we will put you in contact with those who might be able to help you.

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For information about Linux resources (books, machines and interface cards) available from Basis Volume please browse the b-vol website. and click on b-vIT.
If you are only interested in training-courses, you can also communicate your training needs via the web by filling out a form on-line.
if you are based in Britain, and you are obliged fund the course your-self, we are an approved learning-provider in the government-sponsored career development loans (CDL) system.

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