Lesson 1 Date: 1/23/2019

User accounts, files and directories, processes, system commands.

Linux System Administration

Topics we'll cover 1. Commands, shells, processes 2. Installation and upgrade 3. Server virtualization with KVM 4. Linux package management 5. Networking 6. Network File System (NFS) 7. System startup, targets, and process scheduling (at, cron) 8. Linux and Windows interoperability 9. Shell scripting 10. Application compilation and linux package building 11. Python scripting for Linux administration 12. Security 13. High Performance Computing (multi-core and multi-node systems, MPI, OpenMP)

Today's agenda Introduction Topics Agenda Recitations Foundation of Linux What makes Linux different Linux on Desktop Linux is a kernel Login to terminal User accounts Linux shells Files and Directories Files Permissions and Ownerships Sticky bit Links Processes Process data streams Background processes System commands Take me to the Course Website