Welcome to the Linux workstation environment in the College of Engineering at Bucknell University. There are three Linux laboratories in the Dana and Breakiron Engineering Buildings: Dana 213, Breakiron 164 and Breakiron 167. Dana 213 and Breakiron 164 are college laboratories and are open for public use when no classes have been reserved. Breakiron 167 is a limited access lab for use by Computer Science faculty and junior and senior CS students. The Dana 213 lab has 25 workstations; Breakiron 164 has 36 workstations, and Breakiron 167 has 10 workstations. There are also 3 Linux servers available for you to remotely connect to: linuxremote1.eg.bucknell.edu, linuxremote2.eg.bucknell.edu, linuxremote3.eg.bucknell.edu.

This manual serves as an introduction to the facilities available on the Linux systems, including the graphical environment, called GNOME and the Linux command line. In the following sections you will learn how to access the Linux workstations and how to use them in creating, compiling, and running programs. You will also learn about the basic Linux commands and the facilities for printing files. This manual was written with the first time user in mind. It is written in a straight forward manner so you can understand the material and can quickly become comfortable using the Linux workstations.