About the course - Linux Tutorial

- [Announcer] You are watching IT Pro TV. (upbeat music) - Hello, thank you for choosing IT Pro TV. I am Zach, and this is Don, and we are very excited. we're excited, aren't we? - Absolutely, I've been looking forward to this one for a while. - This is LPIC-2 Linux Engineer and you know, we're going to talk a little bit about the course here, but before we get going though, I've worked with Don a few times on Linux courses and it's always great to work with you. Tell us a little bit about yourself too, Don. - All right, so I'm Don Pezet, I'm co-founder and Edutainer here at IT Pro TV, and I have been working with Linux since the mid-1990s. I've used it in production environments in the insurance and financial industries and have found it to be an incredibly robust and reliable platform that has really become my favorite operating system over the decades. - Don likes Linux and I do too. And tell you what, what's in it for the learner? What's in it for the person who's watching our course? - All right, well, this is an advanced course. We're going to dig into some deep stuff under the hood in Linux that normal people don't have to worry about. So if you've ever found yourself with a Linux system that was running slow, that wouldn't boot, that had some kind of issue and you said, you know what? I'm just going to format and reinstall. Well, wouldn't have been a nice if you could actually find what that problem was to attune the system to make it perform at peak levels, well, that's the stuff that we're going to learn here. By the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding of the way that Linux operates and how you can influence the things that it does, even with things that are behind the scenes that you wouldn't normally know about. - So let's get a little more granular here. What are the course goals? How is the course actually chunked, if you will, because there'll be several episodes, of course. - So our goal is to, you know, empower you through engaging learning, right? We want you to be better at the tasks that you perform and more proficient with Linux. And we're going to achieve that by talking about a number of things. So some of the topics are going to focus on performance monitoring. So how do you know if your CPU utilization, memory, disc, IO, all of those things are at acceptable levels for your environment, and what can you do to fix that? We'll see focusing on the kernel, we'll learn how to compile a kernel and actually build a custom one again, designed to improve our systems operation. We'll talk about advanced storage technologies, including SANs. We'll get into recovering systems that have damaged bootloaders. We're going to take a look at advanced networking, wireless networks and so on. All the different aspects that we need to make a Linux system perform at peak functionality. - So Don, is this course tied to a certification? It is. So, you know, LPIC-2 stands for the Linux Professional Institute certification 2, which is their Linux engineer certification. So this shows a more advanced minimum intermediate knowledge of working with Linux systems. And this course is being designed around the exam objectives for the first of the LPIC-2 certification exams. So this one is built around exam 201-450. That's important to know, because to get your LPIC-2 certification, you need to pass both exams. This is just the first one. So be sure if you're going for that cert to check out the second show that we're doing, cover the second exam, we're covering the first block. - This is very important stuff then. So why are you excited about this course? I know that's kind of redundant, but why are you excited? - You know, I'm excited for this course one, because I love Linux, right? So it's my favorite operating system to work with. But the other thing is I've worked with Linux so long that I've acquired a lot of weird fringe knowledge that I never get to use. And in this course, we cover some of that, right? So, you know, most people don't have to rebuild their bootloader, most people don't have to monitor CPU utilization over a period of time and create some kind of trend. People don't normally do that stuff and here's my chance to talk about it. So it'll be a lot of fun. - Oh wow, well, I can't wait. LPIC-2 is going to be a wonderful course. We invite you to join us. You'll be glad you did. Bye-bye for now. (upbeat music) - [Announcer] Thank you for watching IT Pro TV.