The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the Linux operating system, mainly from the perspective of a system administrator. The focus is on practical skills backed by hands-on examples, but adequate theoretical notions are also given when needed.

This training course prepares developers to work on communication or embedded-style applications for GNU/Linux or other POSIX environment (BSD, QNX, etc.).

The course covers the basics for Linux file systems – access permissions and structure, simple ksh scripting and common command line tools.

The purpose of this course is to explore the most important aspects of networking in Linux, especially routing and switching. The approach of this training is mainly from an administrative point of view.