Season 3: Welcome to Engineering · Episode 1 of 8
Where Did the Desktop Go?
You play: AI Engineering Intern
Included with Core programme and Certification prep
The situation
The fictional engineering team gives you a headless Linux workspace: a shell and the creator-service project. Kabelo asks you to inspect its directory and identity, choose a licence for the stated partner requirement and repair a path variable.
What you'll learn
- LPI 1.1, 1.3, 2.1-2.2, 4.1: Linux distributions and the shell, open-source licensing, command structure and options, quoting, environment variables, and reading man / --help.
- Debian and Red Hat families with their package formats and tools, where Linux runs (embedded, Android, cloud), major open-source applications and desktops, the OSI and the FSF, copyleft and permissive and Creative Commons licences, LTS releases, everyday security skills (password managers, encryption, private browsing), and finding commands with apropos, whatis, --help and info.
Who you work with
Kabelo Mokoena
Platform and DevOps Engineer
Maya Chen
Senior AI Engineer · Your mentor
Scenes
- 1.No desktop, just a prompt
- 2.Find your way around
- 3.Family, tool or desktop?
- 4.Find it without guessing
- 5.Pick a licence
- 6.The path that isn't a path
- 7.Shell fundamentals check
What you leave with
You navigated the simulated Linux workspace, recommended a licence for the stated partner requirement and corrected a path/variable mistake after inspecting it. The transcript records the commands and their results.