Linux Course outline

Following are the Chapters that should must read and understand properly for Linux Students.  

Linux for Newbies 

1. History of Linux
2. Concept of free software, open source and GPL
3. Installing RedHat Linux 5.x / CentOS 5.x / Fedora 8+
4. Configuring the system for dual booting with other operating systems (eg. wintendo)
5. Understanding kernel and kernel versions
6. Understanding different Linux distributions and distribution specific version numbers
7. How and where to look for help (Websites, Howtos, Mailing lists, Discussion Forums)
8. Starting up and shutting down the system
9. Working in command line interface and basic commands
10. Using KDE and GNOME file managers for file management operations.
11. The X window system (KDE and GNOME window managers)
12. Using KDE desktop (including KDE control panel)
13. Understanding devices : Floppies, cdrom and hard disks (formatting, mounting, etc)
14. Configuring (mounting) Harddisks on other IDE / SATA channels for data copying
15. Partitioning and formatting Harddisks
16. Creating and managing users (a general overview)
17. Working with files (creating and changing files,etc)
18. Files and directory permissions (viewing and setting)
19. Working with system information (GUI bases, and commands like lspci, etc)
20. Configuring printer and printing files (CUPS)
21. Configuring and using scanners (Xsane)
22. Working with various text editors in command mode (vi, pico and emacs)
23. File compression utilities (tar, gzip, bzip2, compress)
24. Installing , removing and updating packages with RPM
25. Installing software from source code tarballs (tar.gz)
26. Using OpenOffice
27. Games on Linux, configuring Sound and Video cards on Linux
28. Using Internet (modem configuration & Internet account setup)
29. Configuration of ethernet cards
30. Configuration of Wireless Cards
31. Email clients (KMAIL / Thunderbird/ Evolution)
32. Configuration of POP+IMAP+SMTP accounts in e-Mail client software
33. Configuring Hotmail email accounts on Linux
34. Chat on IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Skype
35. Listening to music CDs (MP3 etc, XMMS)
36. Viewing video CDs (MPG, AVI, MOV, etc) (Mplayer, Xine, VLC Player)
37. Writing / burning CDs with CD-writer K3b and Xcdroast (configuration, etc)
38. Creating and using boot-disks (obsolete ?)
39. Brief introduction to web publishing tools (Quanta, Velocity, etc)
40. Implementing firewalls at user level
41. Using secure copy for transferring files between Linux computers
42. Connecting from a Linux pc to a windows PC to access shared files
43. Recovering system and boot-problems using rescue CD and single user-mode
44. Configuring Samba service.
45. Connecting from a windows PC to a Linux PC to access files shared through Samba

 Linux for System Administrators

1. Linux advance commands (including regular expressions, and related tools (sed, awk, perl)  
2. Using telnet, secure shell and scp
3. RSH, Rlogin, RExec
4. SSH keys, Key based authentication, Password less logons, etc
5. Understanding File System Layout (ext3)
6. Locating and editing configuration files and scripts (/etc/init.d/*, /etc/rc.local)
7. Networking basics (TCP/IP). Configuring network interfaces.
8. Administrating user accounts and groups.
9. System initialization scripts and run-levels
10. Configuring selected services to run on system boot (chkconfig)
11. Setting up servers / services: BIND (DNS), NFS, NIS, SAMBA, Sendmail, Postfix, Apache, Squid
12. Monitoring and administrating log files (logrotate, cron)
13. Monitoring system resources, using SNMP and MRTG
14. System security, restricting access to network services
15. Configuring / implementing firewalls
16. Configuring IP Masquerading
17. Making and using boot disks
18. Enabling support for NTFS partitions
19. Working in rescue and single user mode / securing single user mode
20. Configuring, building and installing a custom kernel (kernel recompilation
    
    I hope it to be helpful for all.