Syllabus

From Linux 101, The beginner's guide to all things Linux.

The writers have made the following assumptions.

This is an evolving syllabus. We have never documented this much about Linux in one place. We may forget to explain some things, or we may have overlooked our expectations on something! Help us to help you. If you have a question, each article has its own discussion page and we do monitor them. If in doubt, ask questions.

Contents 1 Schedule of Primary Topics 1.1 Laptops 1.2 Clemson Specific 1.3 Appendices 2 Secondary Topics 3 Unassigned Topics 3.1 The Newbie 3.2 The Novice 3.3 The Journeyman 3.4 The Adept 3.5 General

[edit] Schedule of Primary Topics

Primary topics get to the core of the Linux system. These are topics that you need to know to get the fundamentals of Linux and to be self-reliant on a system.

1. Why Linux? & Linux
2. GNU, Free Software, and Open Source Software
3. Open Source Software Licenses
4. Ten faces of extraordinary men
5. Distributions of Linux
6. Linux definitions
7. Conventions in Linux 101
8. Man pages
9. Basic System Commands & Basic Commands
10. Users and Groups & su & Adding users and groups
11. Directory structures and system layout
12. File attributes and permissions & Symlinks
13. The shells and specifically bash
14. XFree and Xorg
15. Window managers and desktop environments
16. Program Equivalents
17. The bash environment
18. File Compression
19. Text Editors
20. Processes and signals
21. Simple shell scripts
22. Programming tools
23. Compiling programs
24. Basic system configuration files
25. Kernel modules
26. Devices
27. Filesystems
28. Mounting drives & fstab
29. Loopback devices
30. Networking
31. Encryption - Remote Connections & ssh
32. Encryption - Files and Email
33. Encryption - Filesystems
34. slocate & grep
35. screen
36. Linux kernel configuration
37. Kernel messages & system logger & log files
38. cron & at

[edit] Laptops

1. Wireless
2. Power Management
3. PCMCIA
4. Network Roaming

[edit] Clemson Specific

1. Remote Access (VPN)
2. Accessing Novell Files
3. Login Using Novell
4. Printing

[edit] Appendices

1. Conventions in Linux 101
2. Linux definitions
3. Common errors or misconceptions
4. Tips, tricks, and strategies
5. Listing of All commands used on this site
6. Listing of useful commands
7. Listing of File extensions
8. Listing of Web Resources

[edit] Secondary Topics

Secondary topics generally are more specific to their particular subject. They are non-critical and you can get by without knowing about these things. However, to wield of the full power of Linux, these readings are useful.

This listing is still randomized.

1. Terminals
2. chroot environments
3. Samba and network file systems
4. Threading / Libraries
5. Running Windows applications
6. Console applications
7. Shell scripting
8. X font server
9. Python, PHP, Perl, C
10. CD burning
11. Regular expressions, LaTeX
12. sed & awk
13. ramdisks
14. The startup process
15. Databases
16. Kernel patching
17. IPSec
18. setuid
19. DNS and Network addressing

[edit] Unassigned Topics

If you add a topic to the primary topic list, be prepared to justify your decision. To keep it organized like a real class, the topic count should not exceed the range of 40.

Secondary topics may be added to as you wish, though try and organize them together as much as possible.

You can feel free to write about new topics. The easiest way to do that is to edit this page and make a link at the bottom, and then simply click it to edit the new topic.

[edit] The Newbie

1. Versioning scheme

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[edit] The Novice

1. Printing

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[edit] The Journeyman

1. Kernel sources

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[edit] The Adept

• Depth Discussion of gcc and Compiling

[edit] General

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