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LPI exam 101 prep: Hardware and architecture

Junior Level Administration (LPIC-1) topic 101

Ian Shields (ishields@us.ibm.com), Senior Programmer, EMC
Ian Shields
Ian Shields works on a multitude of Linux projects for the developerWorks Linux zone. He is a Senior Programmer at IBM at the Research Triangle Park, NC. He joined IBM in Canberra, Australia, as a Systems Engineer in 1973, and has since worked on communications systems and pervasive computing in Montreal, Canada, and RTP, NC. He has several patents and has published several papers. His undergraduate degree is in pure mathematics and philosophy from the Australian National University. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina State University. You can contact Ian at ishields@us.ibm.com.
(An IBM developerWorks Contributing Author)

Summary:  In this tutorial, Ian Shields begins preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute® Junior Level Administration (LPIC-1) Exam 101. In this first of five tutorials, Ian introduces you to configuring your system hardware with Linux™. By the end of this tutorial, you will know how Linux configures the hardware found on a modern PC and where to look if you have problems.

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Date:  08 Aug 2005
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (372 KB | 43 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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