SUSE - Migrating to SuSE Linux

An intensive, complete, 2-Day, 100% Hands-On Course for Linux Administrators who have experience with GNU/Linux or Red Hat Linux, and what to quickly master the key technology skills that are in SuSE Linux.

Experience with Red Hat Linux or equivalent. If you do not have Linux experience, you can take Linux ICNT as a prerequisite.

• SuSE Linux compared to GNU/Linux
• SuSE Linux compared to Red Hat Linux
• SuSE Linux Versions

• SuSE Install compared to Red Hat Install
• Hardware Support
• Partitions and Filesystems
• Logical Volume Manager
• Manual Installation
• Automated Installation (AutoYaST)

• SuSE Filesystem compared to Red Hat Filesystem
• /bin, /sbin, /lib
• /media, /mnt
• /opt
• /srv
• /sys

• YaST compared to Red Hat
• Software Configuration
• Hardware Configuration
• System Configuration
• Yast Online Update
• SuSEconfig

• SuSE User Management compared to Red Hat
• useradd, userdel, usermod, passwd
• /etc/default/useradd
• /etc/default/passwd
• /etc/skel
• PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module
• ACLs - Access Control Lists
• LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

• SuSE Compared to Red Hat
• BIOS
• GRUB - GRand Unified Boot Loader
• Kernel Boot Phase
• Initial RAM Disk
• INIT
• Hotplug and udev

• SuSE Compared to Red Hat
• Runlevel Definitions
• /sbin/init
• /etc/inittab
• chkconfig
• insserv

• SuSE Compared to Red Hat
• Network Startup
• /etc/sysconfig/network
• ip, ifup, ifdown
• Network Tools

• SuSE Compared to Red Hat
• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• BIND - Berkeley Internet Name
• NFS - Network File Server
• Samba - Windows File Server
• Apache - Web Server
• Postfix - Email Server
• chroot and security

• SuSE Compared to Red Hat
• rpm
• /proc
• /sys
• sysctl, /etc/sysctl.conf
• seccheck
• powertweak