Subject: Lectures @ Stevens: Open Source and System Administration
To: None <regional-nyc@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: regional-nyc
Date: 08/24/2005 05:25:34
[let's send this here too, just in case - sorry for the spam ;-]
There will be two courses at Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, NJ,
this fall that may be of interest to you, "Open Source" and "System
Administration":
1) "Open Source" (CS765E)
Open Source became popular in public with the discussion about using it in the
cities of Austin (Texas), Mexico City (Mexico) or in European cities like
Bergen (Norway) or Munich (Germany). But Open Source systems consist of a lot
more than the Linux operating systems and other software
Topics covered in the lecture include: Historical background of Free and Open
Source Software; Alternatives to the Office standard; Architecture of Open
Source systems; the Open Source toolchain (compilers, GNU autoconf, libtool);
Manual software installation - configure ; make ; make install and beyond;
Managing source code with RCS and CVS; License models and their effects;
Earning money with free software; Source-based packaging systems; Role of the
Internet in Open Source software; and many more.
Instructor: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
Scheduled: Monday, 6:15 - 8:45pm, see homepage for place
Homepage: http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~feyrer/OS/en/
Flyer: http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~feyrer/OSflyer.pdf
2) "System Administration" (CS765D)
Now there you are with your shiny RedHat, MacOS X or whatever installation,
you've clicked all the buttons that the GUI came with, but you still don't know
what's going on inside the machine? Fear not, help is at hand! This lecture is
intended for Unix neophytes who want to know what to do with the system, and
how, without relying on fancy user interfaces. Experienced users will gain
deeper understanding in the various subsystems of Unix, their interaction and
configuration.
Topics discussed in the lecture include: A historical overview of the history
of Unix, and why there is no such thing called Unix; the login process - diving
into the system; tools to use standalone and for process automation; retrieving
information about the system; Process automation shell scripting with /bin/sh;
examining system startup and shutdown as application of shell scripts;
networking under Unix: basics, secure communication, managing clusters of
workstations; the X Window System; security considerations; using Perl for user
management in a heterogeneous Unix+Windows environment; software management;
backups. Focus in examples is put on, but not limited to, Solaris, NetBSD and
Linux.
Instructor: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
Scheduled: Wednesday, 6:15 - 8:45pm, see homepage for place
Homepage: http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~feyrer/OS/en/
Flyer: http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~feyrer/OSflyer.pdf
Interested parties are asked to enroll at Stevens as Special Students by August
29th, for all the gory details please see
http://gradschool.stevens-tech.edu/admissions/domestic.html.
If this is not of interest to you, please bear with me.
Please send any questions regarding the courses to me via email.
Thanks!
- Hubert