Course Code: TECH 172
Academic Year: 2025-2026
This course focuses on the principles, theory and features of multi-user, multi-tasking operating systems. The students continue from TECH-112 learning an open source distribution of Linux. This course covers user account management, file systems, basic storage management, package management, network and system service management, process management, scheduling, input/output, memory management, and system management. These concepts are illustrated by studying the operation of an open-source UNIX/Linux operating system such as RedHat. Also, comparisons to MS Windows systems management are performed.