Linux Essentials Study Guide: Exam 010 v1.6, Third Edition provides the beginning Linux and Open Source audience a solid foundation of Linux basics as well as prepare them to take the new LPI Linux Essentials exam. This practical book provides a learning-by-doing approach to gaining a core understanding of Linux.
Organized by tasks, this book covers:
- Linux in the Cloud
- Major Linux distributions and types of Open Source applications
- Understanding of freeware and licensing
- Operations of a Linux system
- Navigation of Linux Help systems
- Comparison between Windows, Mac and Linux
- Components of Linux desktop and server
- Storage of information on a Linux system
- Adding a computer in a Linux system
- Navigating the command line and using the command line to create, move, delete, and archiving files and searching and extracting data from files
- Turning commands into scripts
- Command line editor and text files
- Identifying user types
- Creating users and groups
- Setting permission and ownership
- Special directories and files