Unit Quiz Questions Flashcards
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systems designed to do a specific task on hardware optimized only for that purpose
embedded systems
application of embedded systems (ex)
IoT
what a distribution provides to add and remove software from the system
package manager
a software release cycle describes
how often upgrades come out
distributions made by/clones of redhat
fedora, centOS
community effort that supports many hardware platforms (distribution)
debian
60% of web servers are
apache, nginx
software used to transfer email to other systems
mail transfer agent (ex Sendmail, Postfix)
takes care of storing email in user’s inbox
mail delivery agent
communication protocols that let an email client running on your computer talk to a remote server to pick up messages
POP/IMAP (ex Dovecot, Cyrus)
tree based directory system that derives information from an object’s location in the tree
LDAP
assigns a free IP address from the local network pool on startup
DHCP
file server application for communication with linux and windows
samba
file sharing software examples (3)
samba, netatalk, NFS
package manager used in Fedora (RedHat)
yum
server software that could be used to create a company directory that you could search and authenticate against
OpenLDAP
a philosophy held by the free software foundation that someone who modifies free software should be required to share any changes they make
copyleft
linux is distributed under which license
GLPv2
license that allows you to
specify whether or not changes must be shared, whether people may distribute changes, and allow or disallow commercial use
creative commons
ensure that all variants of the original GPL program have the same freedom of use as the original
LGPL
command line interpreter that translates commands into actions for the os
shell
the most common shell used for linux distros
bash
directory containing additional doc files, such as readmes and support for third-party software
/usr/share/doc
command that merges all available documentation into a single “book”
info
