Introduction to Ubuntu

Introduction to Ubuntu

Introduction

Welcome

Introduction to Ubuntu

What is Linux

Distrubution

Obtaining Ubuntu Linux

Installation

Booting

LiveCD

Starting Install

Installation Process

Disk Creation

Users at Creation

Around the Desktop

Panel

Dock

Looking For Programs

Running Graphical Programs

Customization

Useful Utilities

Office App - Libre Office

Using The Terminal

Aliases

Running Programs

Switching Desktop Environments

Using The Display Manager

Getting Help

Bash

Internet App - Firefox and Pidgin

File Management

Using The Console To List Files

File Permissions

File Management - Copy, Move And Rename

Filesystem Layout

Path Variable

Editing Files

Pseudo Filesystem - Dev, Proc and Sys

File Sharing

Locating Files - find and which

Redirection

Special Files - devnull, devzero And devurandom

Dot Files

Symbolic and Hard Links

Compression

System Management

Package Sources and Updating

Package Management - Search, Install and Remove

Logging and Log Management

Service Management

Process Management - ps and top

Process Management - kill and killall

Building Software

Useful Utilities - grep

Kernel Modules

Kernel Config

User Management - Files

User Management - Adding And Changing Users

User Management - Groups

Using Cron To Automate Tasks

Using Sudo

Network and Security

Network Interfaces

DNS - dig, whois and host

Changing Name Servers

Basic Troubleshooting - ping and traceroute

Informational Utilities - netstat, ifconfig, route and arp

Packet Captures

IPTables

SSH Server

Using Netcat

Disk Management

fdisk - Partitioning

HDparm - Hard Drive Parameters

RAID

Logical Volume Management

Formatting - Making a Filesystem

Mounting Volumes

Other File Systems

Using Removable Media

Pulling It All Together - Installing A Web Application

Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP

Configuring Apache

Loading PHP Module

Installing and Configuring Samba

Unpacking and Installing Wordpress

Setting Permissions

Creating a Database

Creating a User in the Database

Configuring Wordpress

Complete Wordpress Installation

Using HTML Editor

Advanced Tasks

Bash Scripting

Perl Scripting

Python Scripting

Ruby Scripting

Writing C Program

IPv6

Wrapping Up

Review

Next Steps