| 9:00 - 10:30 | Operating Systems Overview / Linux Basics |
| - What is GNU/Linux? GNU/Linux Distributions |
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| - characteristics of modern operating systems, objectives & functions, operating systems layers, a bit of history. |
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| - Linux key features, Linux directory tree and file systems |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 - 12:00 | Installing Linux |
| - preparing for the installation, partitioning, software selection choices, installation problems |
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| - hands on: installing the Linux software |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch served in ITC307 |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Desktops - GNOME and KDE |
| - X-windows concepts, hardware requirements, customizing X environment, X applications, {X,G}Display Managers | |
| - hands on: configuring X for lab hardware, experimenting with display managers, getting online help | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Coffee Break |
| 2:50 - 4:30 | Configuring Linux |
| - basics - users, privileges, editors. The boot process, securing Linux | |
| - hands on: making a publicly accessible Linux secure |