linux_introduction/readme.md

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Table of Contents

• Introduction to Linux
  • Where does Linux originate from?
  • Who is behind this project?
  • What is the deal with 'GNU-slash-Linux'?
  • Where can you get some Linux?
  • Debian
• How to create a virtual machine
• Breakdown of the Debian installation
• Exercise
• Quick look at an idle system
• Package managers
  • Graphical installation
  • Command line installation
  • Adding a secondary desktop environment
• Changing the runlevel
• Exercise
• Guest additions
• Introduction to the command line
  • Compiled vs interpreted
  • Note on file extensions
• More about paths
  • Absolute and relative paths
  • root and / and /root are not the same thing
• Exercise
• A pit stop to review what we've learned so far
• Arguments and flags
• Getting help
  • Options
  • Manuals
• Exercise
• Creating, modifying and deleting
  • Directories
  • Files
    • nano
    • vi and vim
• Exercise
• Finding stuff
  • Finding files
  • Searching inside files
  • Wildcards and regular expressions
• Pipes and redirects
• Users
  • Adding and removing users
  • Switching user
• Permissions
  • Octal number system
  • Changing permissions
  • Changing ownership
• Remote control of a server
  • History
  • SSH and SFTP
• Bandit

Planning

Essential

Day 1

• Introduction to Linux
  • Where does Linux originate from?
  • Who is behind this project?
  • What is the deal with 'GNU-slash-Linux'?
  • Where can you get some Linux?
  • Debian
• How to create a virtual machine
• Breakdown of the Debian installation
• Exercise
• Quick look at an idle system
• Package managers
  • Graphical installation
  • Command line installation
  • Adding a secondary desktop environment
• Changing the runlevel
• Exercise

Day 2

• Guest additions
• Introduction to the command line
  • Compiled vs interpreted
  • Note on file extensions
• More about paths
  • Absolute and relative paths
  • root and / and /root are not the same thing
• Exercise
• A pit stop to review what we've learned so far
• Arguments and flags
• Getting help
  • Options
  • Manuals
• Exercise
• Creating, modifying and deleting
  • Directories
  • Files
    • nano
    • vi and vim
• Exercise

Day 3

• Finding stuff
  • Finding files
  • Searching inside files
  • Wildcards and regular expressions
• Pipes and redirects
• Users
  • Adding and removing users
  • Switching user
• Permissions
  • Octal number system
  • Changing permissions
  • Changing ownership
• Remote control of a server
  • History
  • SSH and SFTP

Day 4

• Bandit

Day 5

• Bandit
• Moving forward

CCNA

Day 1 - 5

• Idem as essential

Day 6 - 8

• Networking on Debian

Day 9 - 10

• bash scripting
• vim customization