Course Summary
Red Hat Linux continues to enjoy an ever-expanding role in providing enterprise-level solutions. As companies migrate from proprietary to open source platforms, technical staff must leverage their existing expertise by learning the tools and techniques of the world of open source. Red Hat´s RHD256 course provides a succinct introduction to new application development, as well as providing insight into porting existing applications, into the Red Hat Linux
environment.
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Goal:
Upon completing the class, student should be able to take advantage of the
features of Red Hat Linux to write new applications and port applications to
Red Hat Linux from proprietary UNIX environments.
Audience:
RHD256 allows an experienced programmer, who is already familiar with development on a proprietry UNIX-like system such as Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, or Hewlett-Packard HP-UX or another Linux distribution, to gain equivalent skills for the Linux environment in a timely manner. The combination of lecture and hands-on lab exercises is designed to illustrate the unique features of Red Hat Linux development and provide contrasts with proprietary systems.
Prerequisites:
Application development skills on any UNIX-like platform, including proprietary offerings and other Linux distributions. Attendees are expected to be familiar with common shells and command line utilities such as the C compiler, a linker utility, and the make(1) program. What you will learn:
- Open source vs. the proprietary model
- The common Open Source software licenses: the GPL; the
LGPL; and the BSD license; and how they affect your
software development strategy.
- Components of the Red Hat Linux development environment,
including compiler toolchains and application libraries
- Packaging software with rpm(1), tar(1) and cpio(1)
- How to choose among the common version control systems.
- How to compile and debug application programs
using the GNU Compiler Collection, and the Red Hat
Insight debugger
- How commonly-used enterprise file systems affect the
application development effort.
- How to write, install, and control system services.
- The functional differences between Linux command-line
tools and their proprietary-system counterparts.
- Using Red Hat Linux system libraries, and creating your
own libraries
- Issues to be concerned with when porting applications to
Red Hat Linux, such as little-endian vs. big-endian
architectures.
- How Linux multithreaded applications are built.
- Linux security features such as PAM and OpenSSH.
- How to use the "/proc" filesystem to obtain system
information.
- How to register a system with Red Hat Network and
handle package upgrades.
- How to write a simple graphics program for the Linux
GNOME, KDE, and QT environments.
- Which database systems are available on Red Hat Linux and
how to write applications programs which use them.
- Advanced Linux features, such as asynchronous I/O.
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