COMP2018

COMP2018 Linux System Administration

Course Information

This course is part of the CSTN and COPA programs at Georgian College. The course outline is updated periodically and kept available online via the Georgian College website. There is also a course syllabus with the details for each semester kept on the Blackboard website for the course. There is no textbook for this course. Online help and documentation provide the reference material. Ubuntu Server 20.04LTS is the platform for our lab exercises and it is expected that students will run it in a virtual machine under VMWare (Link to download Academic use licensed version), Virtualbox which is free from Oracle, or Parallels which is a highly integrated Mac application that is not free. Students are expected to install and become familiar with at least one of these software packages on their own. I have published a short video on youtube on how to download VMWare from onthehub.com using your student account.

Lab Instructions

These are intended to be used in an instructor-led environment. The presentation materials and discussion should occur before you try the labs, and the labs should be done before you try the quizzes.

  1. Linux Overview and Lab VM Build Presentation/Lab
  2. Desktop Applications Presentation/Lab
  3. Command Line Interface Presentation/Lab
  4. Online Help Presentation/Lab
  5. Managing Files Presentation/Lab
  6. Working with data files on the command line Presentation/Lab
  7. User Accounts Presentation/Lab
  8. Software Management Presentation/Lab
  9. Hardware Management Presentation/Lab
  10. System Configuration Presentation/Lab
  11. Network Configuration Presentation/Lab
  12. Scripting Presentation/Lab

Online Resources

Software Resources