Welcome to another Learning at Lambert Labs session. Every week, we release videos, presented by our developers, giving quick lectures on a chosen topic in technology.
This week’s presenter is Aaron Elijah and his session is an introduction to the Linux File System and how knowing your way round can make you a better developer. See the video below.
All demonstrations were done in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
In Today’s Learning Session:
- Motivation for study (use in Docker, learn more about hardware-software integration, applies to MacOS).
- Posix-compliant vs. ‘Unix-like’.
- Showcase diagram of a typical Linux File System.
- /boot partition and typical booting process
- /bin directory and symlinks
- /dev directory and demonstration with USB device
- /etc directory and comparison of /etc/ssh vs ~/.ssh
- /var directory and use in Docker for finding log files
- /usr directory, its origin and why many there are many symlinks from /bin and /lib
- /opt directory for manually installed, self-contained software from vendors
- Where to find more information.
- Quick Q&A from our developers
📖 Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12xKKnwirNkEzcMRhRkRUruEMeSt9OpYiYYgknZBAAU0/edit?usp=sharing
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