Linux Flashcards

1
Q

who developed the UNIX operating system

A

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories

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2
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kernel

A
  • part of an os
  • main core
  • talks diretly to the hardware
  • manage resources
  • memory management, file systems, device control and networking.
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3
Q

GNU

A

-gnu is not unix

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4
Q

who developed linux

A

linus torvalds

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5
Q

What kind of release does Testing and Unstable have?

A

rolling

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6
Q

What package manager does RHEL use?

A

rpm

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7
Q

What operating system is Ubuntu based off of?

A

debian

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8
Q

What is RHEL branched off of?

A

fedora

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9
Q

What is Linux Mint based off of?

A

ubuntu

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10
Q

What is the name of openSUSE’s Administration/Installation Tool?

A

yast

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11
Q

shell

A

is basically a program that takes your commands from the keyboard and sends them to the operating system to perform.

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12
Q

in gui, there is terminal and console what are they?

A

programs that launch a shell for you

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13
Q

everything in linux is a

A

file

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14
Q

root directory

A

The first directory in the filesystem

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15
Q

paths

A

location of files and directories

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