Lesson 1

Date: 1/22/2014
User accounts, files and directories, processes, system commands.
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


What is Linux?


  • In general, Linux implies rather just a Kernel than a whole OS.

  • Linux OS distributions include
    generic or customized Kernel and
    generic or customized GNU software (libraries, shells, and applications).

  • Source codes of the Kernel, shells and GNU applications are freely available to anyone.

  • Traditional tools for Linux administration and development: 
         C - programming language
   Shell scripting
   Perl
   Python


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