Systems Engineer ยท NYC ยท 20+ Years Production Linux

๐Ÿง Linux from the Ground Up

Real-world Linux tutorials built from 20+ years at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Verition. From boot sequence to security hardening โ€” no fluff, just what works in production.


๐Ÿ’ก Why Learn Linux?

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It's Everywhere

90%+ of cloud servers, every Android phone, and the world's fastest supercomputers run Linux.

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It's Free

No licenses, no subscriptions, no vendor lock-in. Pure freedom, forever.

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It's Powerful

Direct, scriptable control over every part of the system via the command line.

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It Gets You Hired

Linux skills are required for DevOps, SRE, sysadmin, and cloud engineering roles.


๐Ÿ“š All 7 Topics

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Part 1 โ€” Boot Process

BIOS โ†’ GRUB โ†’ Kernel โ†’ INIT โ†’ systemd. What really happens before you see a prompt.

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Part 2 โ€” Installation

Manual and automated installs, partitioning, LVM, kickstart, cloud-init, and post-install config.

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Part 3 โ€” Commands

Cheat sheet covering processes, networking, users, packages, permissions, storage, and text tools.

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Part 4 โ€” Shell Scripting

Bash variables, loops, conditionals, functions, error handling, and real-world automation scripts.

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Part 5 โ€” Networking

IP config, SSH tunnels, DNS, firewall rules, routing, packet capture, and subnet calculator.

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Part 6 โ€” Security

SSH hardening, SELinux, AppArmor, fail2ban, auditd, rkhunter, and an interactive hardening checklist.

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Part 7 โ€” systemd

Service management, custom unit files, journald, timers, targets, and an AI unit file generator.

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โšก Quick Linux Tip

Find what's eating your disk โ€” a command used constantly in production:

Top 10 largest files
$ du -ah /var/log | sort -rh | head -10

Summarize disk usage by directory:

Directory sizes
$ du -sh /* 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20
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