270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

By: Raymond L. Barrett, Jr., PhD, PE

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Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

With the recognition of the Professional Engineer (PE) status for the practice of Computer Engineering in April of 2009, the practice of Control Systems Engineering in October of 2011, and the practice of Software Engineering in April of 2013, there has been the need for specialized continuing education courses related to these practices.

In some curricula, the operating system employed is assumed to be learned by the student without a formal course. We have chosen to examine Linux because it is a Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) system and as such we can delve into any and all of its components to draw examples.

Also, as software is increasingly included as an integral part of the practice of all disciplines of Professional Engineering practices and it is the legal responsibility of the PE that all results are correct, all disciplines face the need for understanding the tools they employ.

In recent years, the computer community has become acutely aware of the possibility of malicious attacks on software; most often through internet connections of the operating system. This course offers an overview of the Linux operating system discussing its operation and structure and why it is perceived to be less vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

This course introduces the origins of Linux along with the Free-Software and Open-Source developments leading to today�s distributions. We discuss the relation of the Linux kernel to popular distributions and two examples from the diverse suite of distributions. Using the bootstrap process involved in loading the Linux kernel, we discuss the memory management, I/O bus hardware interface and file system loading. In a set of appendices, we show how the VirtualBox application is used to support virtual machines and demonstrate concurrent installations of two Linux distributions. We contrast those distributions into the arena of the shell interface, shell programming, process management, communications and applications support.

We introduce many of the topics germane to the study of operating system software in the context of a Free Open-Source Software environment and equip the student with sufficient knowledge to answer basic why and how questions about operating systems software.

Questions about this course? Email the Author: raybarrett@comcast.net

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Review of: Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Scott

03/22/2023

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Provides a good overview of the Linux OS as noted in the scope of the course.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Kip Barkley

04/21/2020

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A nice overview of how Linux works

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

S. M. Hoss PE

04/03/2020

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New content for me, but everything is covered in the material.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

John Somdecerff

02/24/2020

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Good course. I just wish I had the time to work out the bugs with loading Linux into the VirtualBox. I got an error message saying some file, or driver, or something was missing. The only gripe I have is that the screenshots in the PDFs for loading the Linux systems were too small and hard to read - zooming in did not help. When I have some free time I intend to try loading Linux again. I searched for a while before finding a PDH supplier that had a course on Linux. Now if I could just find one for the OpenPLC initiative! Thanks.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Perry Wheless

11/27/2019

I have one computer application that involves Linux and is on a dedicated computer running 24/7. Thought I should learn some about Linux, and the course was worthwhile introduction reading for me.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Jiao Liu

09/04/2019

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Great course. Very extensive information!

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Lawrence Fetter

08/26/2019

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The course content was comprehensive and presented in logical order. The exam was a good overview of the software structure. Safeguards against malicious attacks which are built into the software operation and structure are discussed.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Jose Rodriguez

08/25/2019

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Simple to understand and organized structure of the different topics.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Thomas Tenney

08/25/2019

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Aug. 25, 2019 Course very good. Tom Tenney

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Luke Turgeon

08/21/2019

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The history of UNIX is inaccurate. UNIX and the C language is the brain child of Ken Thompson of AT&T Bell Labs and developed with the assistants of Ken Richie. Sorry UofC Berkely was not a co-developer.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Michael Schunk

01/01/2019

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Very comprehensive, learned a lot, especially hands-on using the "freeware" that the course instructs you to download.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Horacio F Perez

12/13/2018

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Very good and well administered. Brings back a lot of learned stuff.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Don W Edwards

12/07/2018

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Great review.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Edward Grayson

11/21/2018

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Very interesting study of the fundamentals of Linux. Meets the need of the engineering requirements.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Michael Madigan

10/25/2018

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This course helps to sort through the extensive details of Linux operating systems. It also identifies useful communications debugging commands.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Lee Sims

11/17/2017

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Very good overview of Linux.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

S Graham

11/14/2017

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Lots of information to absorb, but a useful starting point for further study in this promising path to secure and productive computing.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

Lionel Bryson

10/19/2017

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very good course, more in-depth than I thought. will be good reference material to keep.

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270-Fundamentals of Linux For the Professional Engineer

03/16/2017

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A good review of Linux

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Course Code: 100206-15

Course PDH Hours: 4

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