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Skills Exchange Workshop – Day 5: Linux, Cloud & OS Internals
20 Jul 2026
│4:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST
Discord (Online) · #Skill-exchange-program
80+ Builders
Mission Brief
Day 5 of the Skills Exchange Workshop pulled back the curtain on the operating system quietly powering 96% of top web servers and 100% of top 500 supercomputers: Linux. Vivek Ranjan Sahoo combined systems theory with an exhilarating live SSH demonstration connecting to an active AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance.
Objectives
- Understand the foundational role of Linux across web servers, supercomputers, Android, and AI/cloud
- Demystify the terminal, shell (Bash), and OS kernel relationship through the journey of a command
- Gain hands-on familiarity with remote cloud servers via SSH and AWS EC2 instances
- Master essential command-line navigation, file viewing/editing, permissions (chmod, sudo), and processes
- Explore the Linux single-root filesystem (/home, /etc, /proc, /dev) and 'everything is a file' philosophy
Crew Dossier
Vivek Ranjan Sahoo
President, GFG ITER
Mission Complete
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Event Flow
The Machine Behind the Web
Adoption scale of Linux in AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity
Terminal, Shell & Kernel
Tracing how typed commands travel down to hardware and return output
Live AWS EC2 Demo
Connecting live via SSH to an Ubuntu cloud instance and inspecting folders
Commands & Filesystem
Navigation, file operations, permissions, and package management
60-Second Challenge & Roadmap
Creating 100 files in one line, fun tricks, and a 3-stage learning roadmap
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