[FredLug] Saturday Agenda

[Peter Larsen]

Ok folks - as usual this is posted at least 2-3 days late. A very bad habit of mine to do things in the very last minute - but here goes and hopefully I can learn to do this with time to spare next month.

I've looked at the many topics that was suggested for our meetings on "The ABC of Linux" as I've come to think of it. Here's the list organized into some manageble categories. I'll like to kick off tomorrow's meeting with an overview of the topics and it's my hope that those who show up can weigh in on how we do this.

I'll bring an old desktop and prepare to talk about computers tomorrow - or rather the most common components of a traditional boot of Linux which will cover Grub, initrd (initramfs), the kernel, and initscripts. The point here is to set the foundation for the more detailed presentations to come. Who should talk about what - well, speak up folks :)

    Boot process

        Bios

        Grub / lilo

        kernel

        initrd / initramfs

        init script

    Basic Linux Commands

    Storage

        File systems

        LVM

        NFS

        FUSE mounts

        Loop Devices – loopback mounts

    Security

        Security Applications (??)

        User Management

        LDAP

        Authentication

    Processes

        What is a process?

        What is a thread?

        Signals

        Priority

        setuid/setgid

    Software repositories

        Yum

        apt

        RPM / DEP

        How to create/setup your own yum repo mirror (Fedora/RHEL/Centos)

    Graphical Subsystem

    Networking

    Virtualization

        Libvirt

        KVM

        QEMU

        Virt Manager

        RHEV?

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Regards
   Peter Larsen