The course will be offered again in Spring 2006 semester under 14:650:485 section 01 as Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering Departmental Elective. It also has been approved as Technical Elective in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. All interested juniors and seniors from the School of Engineering are welcome to register. Due to limited space and number of workstations, the total number of seats is 16.

As of November 4 2005, the course roster is completely full; requests for a special permission number are no longer accepted.

The course lectures will be taught in EIT lab (Engineering D-110) on Wed. period 3 (12:00 -- 1:20 pm) Practical recitations will take place in the Unisys lab (Engineering D-112). One or two recitations a week will be scheduled on the first lecture meeting to provide convenient times for all the students; each student should attend one recitation a week. The topics will be similar to those in 2005 (see lecture notes #1 -- 14).

Linux Course taught in Spring 2004 Linux Course taught in Spring 2003 Linux Course taught in Spring 2002

	Course Info	General description of the course and objectives
	Syllabus	Projected course itinerary and planned topics
	Lectures	Lecture material and practical exercises
	Text Book	An online version of the text book used in this course
	Alexei's presentation	Linux in Engineering Education
	Amit's presentation	Linux - An Introduction to Foundations and Technology
	Lucas's presentation	Centralized Linux Security Server
	Paul's presentation	Parallel Numerical Simulations with MPI and SGE
	Malik's presentation	Centralized Departmental Printing
	Diane's presentation	Web Interface for Linux Print Server
	FAQ's	Brief how-to's on related topics

Here is the list of course material ordered from most recently first. Lesson 14 - 4/27/2005 DNS Lesson 13 - 4/20/2005 Cluster computing Lesson 12 - 4/13/2005 Email Lesson 11 - 4/6/2005 Security Lesson 10 - 3/30/2005 Run levels, at, cron Lesson 9 - 3/28,29/2005 Shell scripting Lesson 8 - 3/9/2005 LDAP Lesson 7 - 3/2/2005 Dual boot, Samba Lesson 6 - 2/23/2005 NIS Lesson 5 - 2/16/2005 NFS Lesson 4 - 2/09/2005 Networking Lesson 3 - 2/02/2005 Kernel Lesson 2 - 1/26/2005 Installation and upgrade Lesson 1 - 1/19/2005 Commands, shells, processes