SUMMARY:   This course will provide students who are new to LINUX with a sound appreciation of this powerful operating environment, thus giving the students the knowledge and confidence to use most LINUX tools and utilities. AUDIENCE:   Technical staff and users (support personnel, application developers, system integrators and powerusers) who require the basic skills necessary to interface effectively with LINUX. This course is suitable for most distributions of LINUX, including Red Hat and Caldera OpenLinux. PREREQUISITES:   The participants should be technical staff with some moderate knowledge of another operating system. There is no prior experience with LINUX required. DURATION:   3 Days APPROACH:   This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops. OBJECTIVES:   Students of this course will have gained a fundamental knowledge of the LINUX operating system and be able to use some of the more advanced LINUX facilities. Having gained suitable experience students can progress to further advanced training to establish peak performance and effectiveness. COURSE CONTENT:   INTRODUCTION ACCESSING THE SYSTEM GETTING HELP GRAPHICAL INTERFACES- GNOMES AND KDE TOOLS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE THE LINUX FILESYSTEM THE BASH SHELL ACCESSING AND USING THE COMMAND LINE COMMANDS AND UTILITIES AVAILABLE AT THE COMMAND LINE EDITING FILES PRINTING FILES UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES DIRECTORY AND FILE SECURITY - PERMISSIONS