Operation System LINUX

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Department of Informatics and Telecommunications

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Why Linux? Basic principles of Linux operation (and generally UNIX based system). Explanation of terms e.g. kernel, process, user. Problems of system start-up (starting scripts) and files and folders system dislocation. Various distributions. Bash - Bourn Again Shell. Input and output redirection. Pipe. Shell variables. Basic Linux´s commands (description of the most important Shell commands). Linux filesystem ext2. File types. Rights, owner, group. Organization of files on a disc. Filesystems mounting in Linux. Swapping. X server. Linux network services. Remote access to a system. Remote application running. Telnet, rsh, rlogin a ssh. Linux configuration. Configuration files in /etc. XServer. Localization principles. Emulators of DOS, VMWare, Wine, etc. X applications and programmes. Security in Linux. security and sendmail, NFS, NIS, Imapd. Increasing of Linux´s power. Programmes installing. RPIV and Debian packets. RPM databases. Programme compilation standard methods. Compilation and kernel upgrading. Linux´s programming tools. Compilators, programme libraries. Interpreted languages. Lisp, Tcl/Tk, Awk, Perl. Apache, WWW a Linux. Principle of WWW server operating in Linux and http and https spaces. Possibility of WWW server implementation in Linux. Sendmail. NFS, NIS, shared discs and Samba, FTP server. Scientific works and Linux. Computer volume for advanced numeric calculations (clustering). Entrance to parallel programming. MPI, PVM.

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