The course will be offered again in Spring 2005 semester under 14:650:485:03 index 54828 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. Non-MAE students need to obtain a special permission number from Robyn (robynl@jove.rutgers.edu) to register. The course lectures will be taught in EIT lab (Engineering D-110) on Wed. period 3 (11:30 -- 12:50 am). Practical recitations will take place in the Unisys lab (Engineering D-112). Two or three recitations a week will be scheduled on the first lecture meeting to provide the most convenient times for all the students; each student should attend one recitation a week. Most of the topics will be close to those in 2004 (see Syllabus), however since Red Hat became completely commercial, the course will be based on Debian Linux.

Note: due to a high interest in the course, the roster became full by December 1 2004. Requests for special permission numbers are no longer accepted. If you have a special permission number, but haven't registered yet, please do it ASAP, otherwise, it will be given to someone in the waiting list for the course after January 7 2005.

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

In the future, the Linux course will cover Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification program:

Laptops from Linux Certified, Inc

	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 12 - 4/21/2004 Lesson 11 - 4/14/2004 Lesson 10 - 4/7/2004 Midterm exam (Q and A) - 3/31/2004 Lesson 9 - 3/24/2004 Lesson 8 - 3/10/2004 Lesson 7 - 3/03/2004 Lesson 6 - 2/25/2004 Lesson 5 - 2/18/2004 Lesson 4 - 2/11/2004 Lesson 3 - 2/04/2004 Lesson 2 - 1/28/2004 Lesson 1 - 1/21/2004