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- Project: Initial specifications for project.
- Practice Test: Practical Midterm held during first lecture after study week requires configuring two minimal Ubuntu VMs correctly and efficiently on a first submit. As practice during study week, configure these two VMs (link in Practice Test) to be transient and reboot persistent networks using these notes:
- Install Ubuntu LTS Desktop.
- Winter 2026 Addenda
OS - Unix Course Topics
- Introduction: learn by doing with note-taking strategies and proof of work done in professor's presence on campus.
- Install Ubuntu LTS Desktop.
- Install Ubuntu LTS Minimal Server
- ISO for Intel/AMD64 architectures: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server (Noble Numbat)
- Post-install configuration.
- Networking - I (setting transient and reboot-persistent static IPs ).
- Networking - II (transient CIDR/30 network).
- Networking - III (permanent CIDR/30 network).
- Practical midterm test of network routing in transient and permanent CIDR/30 networks.
- Project based on setting up multi-user network file server. Use scripts to automate upload and download of files.
- Unix absolute/relative pathnames.
- Perspective and discussion on file and directory permissions.
- Perspective and discussion on user and group management.
- Basics of Bash scripting.
- Practical project demo and submission.