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OCF Linux System Administration DeCal

A course covering the basics of setting up and administering a production-quality Linux server environment.

Week 8 Announcement

Hi everyone, we’re entering the eighth week of the DeCal! At this point, you should have turned in your Lab 7 on Gradescope. We’ll be taking a look and grading them soon. Weekly notes:

Normal schedule, Lecture + Lab on Tuesday 3/31 7-9PM PST.
Lab 8 has been released and can be accessed below
- Please use the corresponding Ed thread for Lab 8 related questions
Any questions? Post on Ed or reach us at decal@ocf.berkeley.edu!

Lecture: Tuesday 7:00PM - 8:00PM

Lab: Tuesday 8:00PM - 9:00PM

Schedule

Week 0: 1/27/2026

Infosession: Tues 1/27 & Thurs 1/29, 7-8pm @ OCF Lab

Lab: Lab 0 due Sat. 1/31

Week 1: 2/03/2026

Lecture: History of UNIX, Intro to Linux, FOSS |

Lab: Lab 1 due Sat. 2/7

Week 2: 2/10/2026

Lecture: Core Shell & Shell Scripting |

Lab: Lab 2 due Sat. 2/14

Week 3: 2/17/2026

Lecture: Packages |

Lab: Lab 3 due Sat. 2/21

Week 4: 2/24/2026

Lecture: Services |

Lab: Lab 4 due Sat. 2/28

Week 5: 3/03/2026

Lecture: Networking 101 |

Lab: Lab 5 due Sat. 3/7

Week 6: 3/10/2026

Lecture: Web Servers |

Lab: Lab 6 due Sat. 3/14

Week 7: 3/17/2026

Lecture: Security Fundamentals |

Lab: Lab 7 due Sat. 3/21

Week 8: 3/31/2026

Lecture: Version Control (git) and Backups |

Lab: Lab 8 due Sun. 4/4

Week 9: 4/07/2026

Lecture: Docker |

Lab: Lab 9 due Sat. 4/11

Week 10: 4/14/2026

Lecture: Nix |

Lab: Lab 10 due Sat. 4/18

Week 11: 4/21/2026

Lecture: Kubernetes (Optional Extra Lab) |

Lab: Lab 11 due Sat. 4/25