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Document Type
Assignment
Publication Date
Fall 9-18-2021
Abstract
This document is a lab assignment of the CIS 440 UNIX Course. This course is mostly based on lab assignments that are performed by students using their home computers (desktops or laptops). The home computers are configured as virtual machines by installing the Oracle Virtual Box Version 6.12 The Ubuntu Desktop Operating System (version 20.04) is then installed on these virtual machines, which are then used to run the course labs.
This lab assignment titled “Unit 3 - Displaying Hardware and Data Files” was originally developed by the National Information Security and Geospatial Technologies Consortium (NISGTC)and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The original work was published in August 2015 and used Ubuntu Version 12 in a computer network environment. This work has been revised to run with Ubuntu Desktop Version 20.04 in a virtual machine of the student’s home computer. This lab assignment is done remotely by the students via s Zoom video conference and then submitted on the course Blackboard website.
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Comments
This lab explores the hardware components of the student's home computer and demonstrates the directory structures of UNIX/Linux Operating Systems