The pracs will help provide you with experience in understanding the details of Linux and other sofftware used in this course.  They will also provide a starting point for the assignments, which will be programming assignments, altering the operating system in some way.

In addition to the prac outlines, some Resources used in the pracs are hosted locally

Guides

• Setting up a development environment
• Subversion Cheat Sheet

Practicals

Based around Assignment 1

1. Intro to Pth
2. Pth internals

Based around Assignment 2

3. Hello Kernel World
4. Character device driver

Based around Assignment 3

5. File systems