This course is ideal for persons who have never used Linux or Unix, and who have no prior command-line experience in any other operating system. You are taught the basics of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment and it prepares your future role as a system administrator.

Prerequisites:

User -level experience with any computer system, use of mouse, use of menus, use of graphical user interface.

Goals

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegate will be a Red Hat Enterprise Linux user productive in using and customizing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system for common command line processes and desktop productivity roles.

Prepares for

RH133 - Red Hat Linux System Administration

Course Objectives
# Understand the Linux file system.
# Perform common file maintenance tasks
# Use and customize the GNOME GUI
# Open, edit and save text documents using the vi editor
# File access permissions
# Launch application form command line and GNOME interface
# Printing commands and utilities
# Customize X Windows System
# Regular expression pattern matching and I/O redirection
# Copy files to and from a floppy diskette
# Install, upgrade, delete and query packages on your system
# Network utilities for the user
# Power user utilities
# Miscellaneous topics