CSC171 Linux Installation and Administration

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Linux, a free operating system that has been available since the early 1990's is becoming very popular with businesses and computer users everywhere.

Students taking the course CSC171 will learn basic Linux administration, user management and best practices for managing Linux systems.

The course is taught in a lab setting with each student having an account on the networked Linux systems, additionally each student will install and manage a linux system on the internet during the course.



In CSC171 Students will learn:

• GNU and Linux commands
• Devices and Linux Filesystems
• Booting, initialization, shutdown and runlevels
• Creating and maintaining documentation for Linux systems
• Linux administrative tasks such as managing users, groups and environment variables
• Installing and configuring the X windowing interface

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