Background

In data centres, we will see Unix and its derivatives much more frequently than we see Windows. Although there are many commercial Unix and Linux distributions (or distros!), we will focus on one version of Linux, Ubuntu.

This collection of notes has its origin in teaching from c. 2010 and I have updated them annually.

You are expected to complete this content in week 5.

In these documents, there are several key terms. These will be italicized. You may need to look up these terms to get a full understanding of them.

Commands are generally shown in bold.

Where I use powers, I show then using the caret symbol, e.g. 2^4 = 16.

Copyright

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