Block 2 : Operating Systems & Cybersecurity

Block outline

This block has 8 weeks of study comprising 21 learning topics:

• OS topic 1 – What is an operating system?

• OS topic 2 – Structure of an an operating system

• OS Topic 3 - Shells

• OS topic 4 – The command-line interface

• OS topic 5 – Users and security

• OS Topic 6 - Files and directories

• OS topic 7 – Input/output

• OS topic 8 –Services and daemons

• OS topic 9 – Processes and scheduling

• OS topic 10  – Context switching

• OS topic 12 – Memory management

• OS topic 13 –  Disk management

• OS topic 14 – System Security and Cyber threads

• OS topic 15 – Confidentiality, integrity and availability

• OS topic 16 - Cyber attack and defence

• OS topic 17 – Access control systems

• OS topic 18 – System security

• OS topic 19 – Application security

Useful Web links

• The Story of Linux (Youtube)

• The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds (YouTube)

• Linux File System (YouTube)

• Installing VirtualBox & Ubuntu

• Use an iso image from here

• https://distrowatch.com/

• These 10 Linux Commands Showed Me How Much Better Life Is Off Windows

Block Web Links

Study Week 1

• ZipSpeak: easy-to-use talking Linux Distribution

• Ubuntu desktop long-term support release

• Ubuntu Releases

• Releases

• GNU Operating System

• Linux Professional Institute

• CompTIA

Study Week 2

• ASUS

• GNOME

• GNU Operating System

• KDE

• One Laptop per Child

Study Week 3

• Matrix Films (IMDb)

• Ubuntu Games

• Ubuntu Guide

Study Week 4

Study Week 5

Related Linux Web Links

• • BSD (Wikipedia)

  • Damn Small Linux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

  • Debian (Wikipedia)

  • Fedora (Wikipedia)

• Free Software Foundation (FSF)

  • Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Wikipedia)

  • Gentoo (Wikipedia)

  • IBM AIX (Wikipedia)

  • Knoppix (Wikipedia)

  • LINUX.COM http://www.linux.com/

  • Linux (Wikipedia)

  • Linux kernel (Wikipedia)

• moodle.ord

• Mozilla FireFox

• OpenOffice.org

  • OpenSUSE (Wikipedia)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Slackware (Wikipedia)

  • Solaris (Wikipedia)

• SourceForge

  • VNC (Wikipedia)

  • Xandros (Wikipedia)

Virtualisation

• • Microsoft Virtual PC (Wikipedia)

  • Parallels Desktop for Macs (Wikipedia)

  • QEMU (Wikipedia)

  • Virtual Machine (Wikipedia)

  • VMWare (Wikipedia)

VirtualBox

• • VirtualBox (Web site) https://www.virtualbox.org/

  • Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)

• Ubuntu (Web site) http://www.ubuntu.com/

• Ubuntu 12.04 Top Top Features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6z6hn6wZlg

Graphical User Interface

• • GUI (Wikipedia)

  • GNOME (Wikipedia)

  • KDE (Wikipedia)

• Training http://www.professormesser.com/linux-plus/linux-training-videos/

Introduction to Command Line Interface (UNIX)

• Introduction to UNIX