Becoming a Linux Power User
Becoming a Linux Power User Overview
Becoming a Linux Power User is a technical skills course designed to elevate viewers to "Power User" status. Linux provides a very robust and powerful platform that enables users to acheive great things. Unfortunately, most users only scratch the surface of what Linux is capable of. This series explores some of the more powerful functions hidden away behind the graphical user interface. Topics cover using terminals and shells, managing processes and files, and writing simple shell scripts.
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Hello, thanks for watching.
Becoming a Linux power user is an exciting
course we're offering here at ITPRO.TV,
and to tell us more
about that is Don Pezet.
Hey, Don,
tell us what is exactly the course?
This is a pretty neat course, because
it is designed to get users introduced to
how powerful an operating system Linux is.
A lot people hear about
the Linux Operating System and
they wanna learn more.
They go and they install it, they get
a nice little graphical user interface.
And they give you the basic things that
they're used to from other operating
systems like Microsoft Windows and
MAC OS and operating systems like that.
But you hear about how powerful it can be.
All this extra stuff, and
you don't immediately see it.
So in this series,
what we're trying to do is pull back
the veil and give us a chance to look
at some of the really cool things you
can do behind the scenes, and it's hard.
It's a challenging stuff, it's not stuff
you can just figure out on your own.
So, getting a change to get
a guided tour through some
of the powerful back-end
features inside of Linux.
Is a really great thing to do,
especially if you're getting started.
And that's exactly what this episode,
or this series, is all about.
Now, who would benefit most from
watching, becoming a Linux power user?
Well, mostly it's going to
benefit people who are new to Linux.
If you've worked with Linux for
a long time,
if you've been using it in the field,
you may well already know these topics, so
it might be a little boring to you.
But if you're just getting started it
is really daunting, really challenging.
And instead of getting intimidated and
just going back to Windows or going back
to Mac OS, here is the chance for you to
take that time to learn the features,
get used to it, understand how it works.
So if you're just getting started
with Linux, if you are a desktop
support engineer, if you are a systems
administrator, that you're gonna
be managing the Linux Operating System,
this is good knowledge to learn.
And what we're gonna see in this series
pertains to servers as well as work
stations, so
if you're working in either environment,
you'll benefit from this series as well.
So, it really does cover
a good group of people.
Now, is there a certification
available for this course?
There are a lot of really good Linux
certifications that are out there,
many of which cover some of the topics
we're gonna cover in this series.
But this series isn't really
built around a search.
So there's no exam based on this content,
for what we're creating here.
This is really focused, not to get you
a certification to get you a job, but
to get you comfortable with Linux and
becoming that power user.
So we tackle exactly what
we think is pertinent and
relevant to a power user
to get you to that point.
On one hand, it's really nice because
that means we're not saddled by
a list of objectives we have to follow.
We get to hand pick what
we think is important.
On the other hand, it's a little more
difficult to kind of show on the resume.
So what a lot of people do is watch
a series like this to get started.
And then move on to do things
like CompTIA's Linux+ or
the LPIC-1 certification.
Those certifications cover a lot of
the topics that we're gonna see here
in this series.
But they're not mirrored up exactly,
so these here won't get you ready for
those exams.
So what are some of the topics
covered in becoming a Linux power user?
All right, we've got quite a few and
the very first topic's probably the most
important one, which is using the shell.
When you first launch a Linux desktop,
you're gonna see
a graphical user interface.
And a graphical user interface is
something you can stumble through and
figure out on your own.
You just click around until
you find what you want.
But the shell, when you drop to
the command line there is so
much more you can do,
but it's so much harder.
And you can't just stumble around and
figure it out.
So we're gonna learn how to use the shell.
We're gonna learn how to
navigate the Unix and
Linux file system, which is very
different than the Windows file system.
We'll talk about how to work
with text files, because almost
all of the Linux Operating System
configurations are stored in text files.
We need to know how to manipulate those,
and edit, change them.
Then we're gonna take a look
to how to manage processes,
how to run applications,
how to make them perform better,
how to stop them if they're not performing
right and manipulate how they work.
And lastly, we're gonna learn how
to write simple shell script.
Shell scripting is really where a lot of
the power of the Linux Operating System
comes from.
The Linux OS was designed by
developers for developers.
And it's evolved a lot since then, so
that now it's good for everybody to use.
But if we know how to do a little bit of
development, we could take advantage of
that and really streamline our
workflow by using shell scripts.
So that's what we'll take a look
at at the end of the series.
Well, thanks, Don.
Now, if this sounds like something that
you'd be interested in, and it should,
you should check out all the episodes in
the Becoming a Linux Power User series.
Thanks for watching.
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Overview
Becoming a Linux Power User is a technical skills course designed to elevate viewers to "Power User" status. Linux provides a very robust and powerful platform that enables users to achieve great things. Unfortunately, most users only scratch the surface of what Linux is capable of. This series explores some of the more powerful functions hidden away behind the graphical user interface. Topics cover using terminals and shells, managing processes and files, and writing simple shell scripts.
Learning Style
On Demand
Length of course
8h 41m
20 Episodes
Here are the topics we'll cover
- Using the Shell
- Moving around the Filesystem
- Working with Text Files
- Managing Running Processes
- Writing Simple Shell Scripts
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