Obsolete: Linux Basics dat8tf063/7 early autumn 2007

After completing Linux Basics, you

Can install a Linux workstation with software
Can use command line interface
Can install 1-2 most important servers
Know the idea of Free software and the most important Free licenses
Know how to keep learning Linux independently

(Old study guide)

Linux Basics tie8tf063 is lectured on Mondays 10:15 – 14:00 in classroom h5013 (karte’s timetable). The course is teached by Tero Karvinen.

Agenda

1 Installation, Distributions w35

2 Desktop Linux, Licenses w36

3 Command Prompt w37

4 Package Management and Administration w38

5 Apache Web Server w39

6 OpenSSH Server and Client w40

7 Programming w41

8 Exam 2007-10-14 10:15, class H5013. w42

Detailed Agenda

1 Installation, Distributions

Install Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS. Obtaining install medium. Demonstration. Trying it. Details. Dual boot installations, backing up. Differences to installing other operating systems.
Distributions: Definition. Life without distribution. Most important distributions.

2 Linux, Licenses

Basics – all your users want to do this: Browsing the web, reading email trough web, writing documents, printing.
Common tasks: Browsing filesystem, editing text and source code, publishing on the Web
Specific uses: Spreadsheets; Slides; Removable storage; CD writing, ripping music; Image manipulation; Web browsing tricks

3 Command Prompt

Moving and looking around. Relative and Absolute Path.
File Manipulation.
SSH Remote Control
Help
History and Guessing
Usefull commands
See also: Command Line

4 Management and Administration

Many ways to use the package manager: “Applications: Add applications”, “Administration: Synaptic”, “Update Manager”, ‘apt-get’
Definition of the package manager. Probelms solved by the package manager.
Priviledged use. Root doesn’t surf. ‘sudo’
sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install inkscape, sudo apt-get upgrade, apt-cache search apache

5 Apache Web Server

Installing Apache
- Enabling user homepages
Why Apache

6 OpenSSH Server and Client

Installing OpenSSH server
- Letting a friend log in
Why OpenSSH (and how to choose software for remote access)
- Security, features, price, platforms
Posix file permissions
- Create a folder where your friend can write

7 Programming

8 Exam 2007-03-12 10:15, class H5013.

Assignments

Publish homework reports on your myy homepage on http://myy.helia.fi/~a12345/linux/h-1.html Where a12345 is your student number and 1 is the number of the excercise (week number – 34). Use normal html for publishing web pages. Each student does homework separatly and writes his own report. You can of course advice fellow students if they get stuck. Homeworks must be on the homepage one whole day before next class (Latest Saturday 23:59). Mention my course: “Based on Linux Basics course by Tero Karvinen http://www.iki.fi/karvinen“. If you want, you can use a Free license (like the license of Linux) by adding text: “This document can be copied under the GNU General Public License”.

The following assingments are just an initial draft. They become official when they are given as homework at the end of each class. .

h-1: a) Install Ubuntu Linux. b) Where Linux is used near you or in your daily life? (In the first excersice, just save your report in a digital form to myy or usb key. We’ll learn to publish web pages on the next class).

h-2: a) Publish a web page. b) Do three common computer tasks (for example: burn a cd, postwork a photo…) c) List most important programs you use daily or weekly. Find alternates to those in Ubuntu (if there are any).

h-3: For c, do and report. For a and b, just do, only report unexpected results: a) Try all the commands learned, many times – learn them all by heart. For this part, only document if something unexpected happens or if you want more information about some command. b) Try 5 commands (other than those mentioned on the class) Do and report: c) write a story of a day with command line. Invent relevant tasks. Use commands learned and others.