02. THE LINUX FOUNDATION

Question 1

What are the most popular Linux distro families?

Answer 1

Red Hat, SUSE, and Debian.

Question 2

What are the most popular Debian distros?

Answer 2

Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Question 3

What are the most popular Red Hat distros?

Answer 3

RHEL, CentOS, CentOS Stream, Oracle Linux and Fedora.

Question 4

What are the most popular SUSE distros?

Answer 4

openSUSE and SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server).

Question 5

Who invented the Kernel?

Answer 5

Linus Torvalds.

Question 6

Who is Linus Torvalds?

Answer 6

A Finnish-American software engineer who created the Linux Kernel and Git.

Question 7

When was the Linux Kernel created?

Answer 7

1991

Question 8

The Linux Foundation

Answer 8

is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data.

Question 9

Linux Foundation projects

Answer 9

Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more.

Question 10

_______ has a close relationship with RHEL and contains significantly more software than Red Hat’s enterprise version

Answer 10

Fedora

Question 11

Why Fedora contains significantly more software than Red Hat’s enterprise version?

Answer 11

1. Diverse community is involved in building Fedora, with many contributors who do not work for Red Hat.
2. It is used as a testing platform for future RHEL releases

Question 12

In _______ there is a longer release cycle than for Fedora

Answer 12

CentOS

Question 13

_______ releases a new version every six months or so

Answer 13

Fedora

Question 14

_______ has no scheduled updates after 2021

Answer 14

CentOS 8

Question 15

The replacement for CentOS is?

Answer 15

CentOS 8 Stream

Question 16

The difference between the two versions of CentOS?

Answer 16

CentOS Stream gets updates before RHEL, while CentOS gets them after.

Question 17

_______ serves as an upstream testing platform for RHEL

Answer 17

Fedora

Question 18

_______ is a close clone of RHEL; in fact, CentOS has been part of Red Hat since 2014

Answer 18

CentOS

Question 19

A heavily patched version ______ kernel is used in RHEL/CentOS 8 Stream, while version ______ is used in RHEL/CentOS 9 Stream.

Answer 19

1. 4.18
2. 5.14

Question 20

It uses _____, the RPM-based package manager to install, update, and remove packages in the system.

Answer 20

dnf

Question 21

______ is upstream for openSUSE.

Answer 21

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Question 22

Kernel version ______ is used in openSUSE Leap 15.4

Answer 22

5.14

Question 23

SUSE Family uses the RPM-based _______ to install, update, and remove packages in the system.

Answer 23

zypper package manager

Question 24

SUSE Family includes the ______ application for system administration purposes

Answer 24

YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool)

Question 25

The _____ distribution is upstream for several other distributions, including Ubuntu.

Answer 25

Debian

Question 26

Ubuntu is upstream for ______ and a number of other distributions

Answer 26

Linux Mint

Question 27

_______ is a pure open source community project (not owned by any corporation) and has a strong focus on stability.

Answer 27

Debian

Question 28

The _____ family is upstream for ______ , and ______ is upstream for _______ and others.

Answer 28

1. Debian 2. Ubuntu 3. Ubuntu 4. Linux Mint

Question 29

Kernel version _______ is used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Answer 29

5.19

Question 30

Debian Family uses the ______ APT package manager to install, update, and remove packages in the system.

Answer 30

DPKG-based

Question 31

DPKG-based package managers?

Answer 31

apt, apt-get, apt-cache, etc.