Understanding Linux

Overview

Many institutions have been adding a Linux machine to their existing infrastructure: perhaps to give developers a platform of their choice, or to provide an alternative to a network server, or to introduce an additional piece to the security jigsaw. 
This 1-day event is targeted at people that are considering the transfer of their computer skills from variety of operating systems to Linux.

The course is also suitable as a high-level overview of Linux for decision makers, system analysts and other professionals trying to position Linux in the contemporary computer industry.

Advanced Linux Administration

Overview 

Linux administration involves a fair amount of interaction with system hardware and the kernel. This course provides a hands-on approach to these and other advanced administrative tasks that are unique to Linux. With this distinctive design approach, this course is also suitable as a Unix to Linux conversion for existing Unix administrators. It is a fast-paced skills-building event, full of practical exercises and troubleshooting.

This course, together with the Essentials of Linux Administration, has been designed to meet objectives of the industry standard Linux certification from Linux Professional Institute, specifically preparing for LPIC-1 (LPI-101 and LPI 102) exams.

UNIX Programming

Overview

This course discusses the use of system-level programming interfaces provided by UNIX and Linux to develop applications.

The course is illustrated with practical examples in UNIX’s ‘native’ C language which show how to write programs to exploit the features of UNIX and how to choose the correct API calls for the task. UNIX is an excellent environment for client/server programming. You will learn how to create both client and server applications using sockets and other inter-process communication methods, and how to create robust multi-threaded applications using the standard pthreads library.

The course concentrates on a common approach to the different variants of UNIX, using the Single Unix Specification (SUS) and explores features available in to X/Open System Interface (XSI). This broad-ranging UNIX course is designed to provide delegates with the skills and knowledge which is applicable to all flavours of UNIX including Linux, HP-UX, UnixWare, Solaris, AIX etc.