Welcome to Jeremy Anderson's Linux class pages. Click on the appropriate link to the left for any given class.

General Info

• Excellent Linux documentation
• Help with Shell scripting
• Here is a good pronunciation guide for all those funny * ! & < > Unix symbols you run across. It's mildly humorous, too.
• HERE is why I like bash & ksh better than csh
• a good vi tutorial
• Mike Monsour's Word Doc of Linux & Unix commands.

downloads

Linux

• Home of Ubuntu Linux, as used in the desktop linux class
• Fedore Core, as used in Linux Admin 1, 2 and sometimes 3
• Home of MySQL, as used in CCIS 2701
• Stay on top of all the different Linux distributions. Free downloads available.

MS Windows

• vim v6.4 for MS Windows
• The latest version of putty for win9x and win2k/winXP, and excellent SSHv1/v2 client
• Complete Linux utilities for your Windows system, including an Xwindows server
• utilities to make your windows machine more unix-like. This is a Win9x only thing, use at your own risk.

Other stuff

• The shell scripts I use (poorly documented, mind you) for setting up Xen on FC6 for my students
• The summary writeup for my Xen Award of Excellence at Hennepin Technical College
• MacSSH for PowerPC, compliments of Joe Kaul.
• I was an author on Multitool Linux. Through amazon.com, you can get used copies for as little as $1.85. That's a great deal.
• Questions to: jeremy@linux-classes.com

All material written by Jeremy Anderson on this site is copyrighted. It can be used in your classroom only with Jeremy Anderson's explicit permission. Violation of this copyright is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act -- which provides for damages of up to $500,000 for the first offense. I'm not kidding -- it REALLY does. Yes, it's insane, but that's US copyright law for you, and I'll use it as long as it works that way. So, if you're a dean of a school in the MNSCU system and you hand a copy of this syllabus to an adjunct instructor, you're not only in violation of the MSCF contract, you're in violation of federal law. All material contained in the Linux Admin courses, Desktop Linux, Database Design, and Network Configuration was written by Jeremy Anderson. Material in the Intrusion Detection course was written by (and is copyrighted by) Michael Schwarz. Portions of the PHP coursework were written by Brandon Carlson, and are thus copyrighted by him -- to be honest, I don't remember which parts. If you're really curious, contact me, I'll contact him, and we'll hammer it out and get back to you. In the event of an MSCF strike, these copyrighted works may not be used for ANY PURPOSE by ANY MNSCU school..

If I haven't scared you off with this copyright notice, and you'd like to use this material in your classroom, feel free to contact me at the above email address. Once I've verified that you're actually an instructor at another school, I may grant you access to the tests as well as the labs and lecture notes which are posted on this site