Video description
In this Ubuntu Linux training course, expert author Ric Messier will take you through this free operating system, teaching you valuable knowledge to help transform this operating system into a useful working tool.
You will start out by learning how to obtain and successfully install Ubuntu Linux. You will then take a tour of the desktop, looking closely at the panel, dock, running graphical programs, and using the display manager, among others. Ric will then teach you about file and system management, showing you how to copy, move, and rename, locate and edit files, as well as adding and changing users. This video tutorial will teach you about networking and security, such as troubleshooting, changing name servers, and using Netcat. Finally, there is a chapter on advanced tasks, which include Bash, Perl, Python, and Ruby scripting, and how to write C programs.
By the conclusion of this computer based training course, you will have the necessary knowledge and skills needed to navigate your way through this operating system and be able to take full advantage of the powerful features available in Ubuntu Linux.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Installation
- Around The Desktop
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File Management
- Using The Console To List Files
- File Permissions
- File Management - Copy, Move And Rename
- Filesystem Layout
- Path Variable
- Editing Files
- Pseudo Filesystems - /dev, /proc And /sys
- File Sharing
- Locating Files - find And which
- Redirection
- Special Files - /dev/null, /dev/zero And /dev/urandom
- Dot Files
- Symbolic And Hard Links
- Compression
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System Management
- Package Sources And Updating
- Package Management - Search, Install And Remove
- Logging And Log Management
- Service Management
- Process Management - ps And top
- Process Management - kill And killall
- Building Software
- Useful Utilities - grep, sed
- Kernel Modules
- Kernel Config - sysctl
- User Management - Files
- User Management - Adding And Changing Users
- User Management - Groups
- Using Cron To Automate Tasks
- Using Sudo
- Networking And Security
- Disk Management
- Pulling It All Together - Installing A Web Application
- Advanced Tasks
- Wrapping Up
Product information
- Title: Learning Ubuntu Linux
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): Infinite Skills
- ISBN: 9781771371964
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