CSCI423 - Introduction to Operating Systems

Instructor: Tobin Maginnis

• Course Text:
  The Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, Steven Smolski Paperback: 648 pages Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (September 19, 2005) ISBN: 0131181637
• Course Syllabus
• Test Taking Procedure
• Test One
• Test Two
• Test Three
• Test Four
• Class Schedule
• Procedure for handing in assignments
• Assignment 1 - Re-display command line arguments one per line
  Vi Command Reference (html)
  Vim Command Reference (html)
  Another Vi Command Reference (pdf)
  VIM Command Reference (pdf)
  Regular Expressions Reference (pdf)
  How does C compare in popularity to other programming languages?
  C Operator Precedence and Associativity (html)
  Dark Corners of the C Language
  Java-based Virtual terminal for Windows
  Native Virtual terminal for Windows
• Assignment 2 - Execute the program name given as a command line argument
• Assignment 3 - Create a child process to execute the command
  C string processing routines with ctype.h
  fork() and pipe() tutorial
• Assignment 4 - Loop for multiple commands and redirect stdout
  What is EOF for gets()?
  What is EOF for fgets()?
  What is EOF for fgetc()?
• Assignment 5 - Redirect stdin & stderr, and connect programs with pipes
• Assignment 6 - Handle more that one pipe operator
• Assignment 7 - Allow "fd>" and ">>" operators and implement the background "&" operator and use the "export" concept to pass environment variables from parent to child

  Ubuntu Technical Board votes on Compiz for Ubuntu 7.10
  Beryl Window Manager
  Compiz
  Compiz Fusion
  Compiz Fusion Development

• Unit One Objectives
  A Timeline of the GPL and Linux (pdf)
  GPL vs BSD: why are people fighting?
  243 Word GPL (and the full GPL)
  John Lions' Commentary on the 6th Ed. of UNIX (pdf)
  Local copy of John Lions' Commentary on the 6th Ed. of UNIX (pdf)
  John Lions' Referenced 6th Ed. UNIX Source Code
  Local copy of John Lions' Referenced 6th Ed. UNIX Source Code (pdf)
  Frequently used bashrc aliases
  Unix Command Reference (pdf)

• Unit Two Objectives
  AMD Quad-core
  Land Grid Array Socket
  NVIDIA nForce3 southbridge specifications
  DFI Blood IronP35-T2RL motherboard
  PDP-8 Example Code
  Memory Hierarchy Latency Example
  DDR-SDRAM Background and Overview
  DDR3 SDRAM: Revolution or Evolution?
  Memtest86 - A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
  ASUS Motherboard With Embedded Linux, Web Browser

• Unit Three Objectives

• Unit Four Objectives
  Tuning Swappiness in Linux
  Is Swap Necessary?
  Choosing an I/O Elevator
  Serial ATA Interface
  Hybrid Hard Drives
  32GB Flash Max Drive
  512GB Solid State Disks on the way/A>
  POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux
  

• Unit Five Objectives
  RAID Handout
  Wiki RAID
  Reliability Curve
  Install Ubuntu Linux on an USB Memory Stick
  Video RAM Storage Device