Linux Flashcards
who developed the UNIX operating system
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories
kernel
- part of an os
- main core
- talks diretly to the hardware
- manage resources
- memory management, file systems, device control and networking.
GNU
-gnu is not unix
who developed linux
linus torvalds
What kind of release does Testing and Unstable have?
rolling
What package manager does RHEL use?
rpm
What operating system is Ubuntu based off of?
debian
What is RHEL branched off of?
fedora
What is Linux Mint based off of?
ubuntu
What is the name of openSUSE’s Administration/Installation Tool?
yast
shell
is basically a program that takes your commands from the keyboard and sends them to the operating system to perform.
in gui, there is terminal and console what are they?
programs that launch a shell for you
everything in linux is a
file
root directory
The first directory in the filesystem
paths
location of files and directories