Steroid is a banned substance because taking it will make your muscles grow unnaturally faster. It is both unfair and dangerous. Taking steroids is unfair to those who are not on steroids because your strength will out-muscle theirs and dangerous because taking too much steroids will turn you into a muscled mutant. This fact, however, does not apply to studying Linux.

If you enroll in our Linux on Steroids class, you will achieve results in just 3 days where it normally takes 3 weeks for other to teach. Taking our Linux on steroids class is both unfair and dangerous, for the completion. Not us. We will make you a Linux savvy in just 3 days.

Learn Linux in 3 days. Impossible

Impossible for those are afraid to challenge and dare oneself for intense, brain-frying, nerve-wrecking 3 day training. But for the few brave souls, 3 days is all it takes for you to be a Linux user.

This 3 day course for Linux is specifically designed for newcomers in the exciting and wonderful world of open source movement within the Linux community. As an introduction to this new realm the student will be able to take not only one but two slices of cake of two of the most widely used distribution in Linux today … namely

Debian and Redhat and be able to compare and contrast the best of both world, after the training the student have the freedom to taste for themselves other Linux distribution that may not even be Debian / Redhat based since the student already have a good knowledge, know how it works and how to survive within the open source community at home or office. Having said that, the new skill set can also be a good step towards other exciting free UNIX BSD systems like (Free, Open, Net). At the end of the day Rivansystems will lead the way and the student have the final say on what domain to jump in within the free community.

BASIC SHELL

• Basic Commands
• Command Syntax
• MAN Pages
• UNIX Files
• Filenames And Their Corresponding File Types
• Wildcards
• Ways Of Displaying File Contents
• Copying Moving Renaming Files
• UNIX Directories
• Hidden Files
• The “.” And “..” Directories
• Relative / Absolute Paths
• Finding Files
• Archiving Files
• Users And Groups
• File Protection Overview
• Changing File Permissions, Ownerships, Groups
• UNIX Pipes and Filters
• Standard Input, Output and Error
• Process Control / Termination
• Running Commands Asynchronously
• Foreground, Background Jobs
• Scheduling Commands
• The Power Vi Text Editor
• UNIX File System
• File Storation
• Hard / Symbolic Links
• UNIX File Types

LINUX BASIC NAVIGATION

• Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
• Usefull Shell Commands, Utilities
• GNU Archive Tools
• Shell Customization
• Environmental Variables
• GNU System Tools
• Filesystem Manipulation
• Mounting / Unmounting Techniques

DEBIAN SPECIFIC TOOLS

• tasksel
• dselect
• dpkg
• apt-cache
• apt-cdrom
• apt-get

Desktop Walkthrough / X Windows and Runlevel Concepts

• Window Managers
• GNOME
• KDE

SETUP NETWORK CONNECTIVITY IN DEBIAN

CLIENT ADMINISTRATION IN DEBIAN

• Users, Groups, Passwords
• DNS resolution
• Tool installation from source

THE DEBIAN LINUX SYSTEM

• Detailed Analysis of The Boot Up Process
• Runlevels
• Linux Daemon Tools
• User settings
• Syslog / Log Rotation

BASIC NETWORKING STUFF

• ping
• traceroute
• netstat
• route
• arp
FEDORA / REDHAT / CENTOS BASED DISTRO TECHNOLOGY + MISC. STUFF

• RPM
• yum
• runlevel (The Redhat Way)
• setting up network connectivity (The Redhat Way)
• The Redhat Linux System

BASIC TYPICAL SETUP OF DAEMONS UNDER REDHAT BASED DISTRO

• DHCP (Client / Server)
• XINETD
• VSFTP
• CRON
• DNS BIND
• APACHE (Named Based / IP Based, Authentication, Encryption, Certificates)
• MAIL (Sendmail, Postfix, POP3, IMAP)

BASIC SECURITY

• SSH
• NMAP
• IPTABLES
• TCP WRAPPERS

In summary, if you ever come across a school that teaches Linux in 3 modules: Linux 101, Linux 201 and Linux 301. At Rivan systems, you get all 3 in 3 days. It is time to feel sorry for your brains because it will get a strong shot of Linux steroids, if you are brave enough to enroll. Consider yourself warned for what does not kill you will make you stronger. Learn to survive in 3 days, and your Linux skills will be out of this world.