• Culture Shift
• Tools, People Etc
• How Collaboration Works
• Folk Law
• What Does Linux Mean

Linux Vendors

• Who are the Major and Minor Vendors
• Differences between Vendors
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Vendors
• Similarities between Vendors

Products

• Kernels
• Current Versions
• Development and Porting Tools
• How the kernel and software are packaged and delivered
• Nomenclature

The Kernel

• Kernel Changes
• Submitting Changes
• Adding Drivers
• Solving Kernel Problems and Getting Them Incorporated in Releases
• Changing the Standard Linux Toolkit to Add Drivers and Tools
• Kernel Tools
• How Does a Distribution Get Built
• How to Determine Which Distribution Has What
• Portals

Dynamically Loadable Drivers

• Hooks
• What Can You Do and Not Do

Common Languages and Shell Environments

• Difference between Linux and UNIX
• Difference between Linux and Linux

Road Map

• Time Frames Around Product Releases
• How Often Do Products Get Released
• Major Versions
• Minor Versions
• How Quickly Do Releases get Adopted

Delivering Products into Cluster Environment

• Specific Issues or Tools Related to Developing Clustering Products

Applications Development Issues Level

• Porting Issues
• Disadvantages with Thread Based Apps?
• Things Missing in Linux

Linux System Administration

• Directory Structure and How it is Different Then Tru64\
• I/O Subsystem, Device Special Files
• Linux Installation
• Red Hat Package Manager

Device and Monitoring Model

• Event Monitoring
• Event Monitoring Tools
• Status

Kernel Config

• Tips and Tricks
• Kernel Optimization

Linux Cluster

• Skilled Cluster
• BeoWulf Cluster
• Architecture
• What is a Linux Cluster
• Comparisons to Other Clustering Products

Resources

• Reference Guides
• Tools
• Troubleshooting Info
• Books
• Source Code
• Documentation

MiddleWare

• MiddleWare Available for Linux

Operating System Issues

• Itanium
• Alpha
• Intel