| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 30 (M) | No class | ||
| September 6 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 13 (M) | About the course; review of some basics (Notes) | 1, 4, 5 | |
| September 20 (M) | No class | ||
| September 27 (M) | The superuser; adding and deleting users and groups (Notes) | 3, 6 | |
| October 4 (M) | Serial devices; disks; cron jobs (Notes) | 7 (skim), 8 (skim), 9 |
Homework 1 (individual)
Homework 2 (group/individual) |
| October 11 (M) | Kernels and device drivers; booting and shutting down (Notes) | 12, 2 | |
| October 18 (M) | No class | ||
| October 25 (M) | Backups; logging and log files; installing and maintaining software (Notes) | 10 (skim), 11 (skim) | |
| November 1 (M) | Networking (Notes) | 13.1 through 13.10, 14.1 | Homework 3 (group/individual) (really due November 5) |
| November 8 (M) | Some network-related services (Notes) | 16, 17, 18 | |
| November 15 (M) | Network security (T. Evans) (Notes) | ||
| November 22 (M) | No class | ||
| November 29 (M) | More network-related services (Notes) | 19, 22 | |
| December 6 (M) | A little about Windows interoperability and other things; course wrap-up (Notes) | 21, 23, 26, 28 | Homework 4 (project) (proposal due 12/6, rest 12/14) |