Review 1-1 Overview of Linux
What is a GUI?
All Of the above
An operating system
All of the above
What is a command line interface?
All of the above
What is a file?
All of the above
Which of the following is a common Linux shell?
All of the above
What is a multitasking operating system?
Allows each user to run more than one job at a time
Linux is
None of the above
Linux was developed by
Linus Torvalds
What is a portable operating system?
One that runs on many different machines
POSIX stands for
Portable Operating System Interface
Linux shell commands can be arranged in a file commonly called a:
Shell Script
The X Window System was developed at
The MIT
BSD and System V are examples of:
Unix
Linux commands can be constructed as a pattern using special characters called:
Wildcards
Ordinarily, if you type xy on the Linux command line, what happens?
You get an error message saying that no such command can be found
What is a link file?
a means to access a file by two or more names.
A virtual machine
appears to the user, and, to the software running on it, as a complete physical machine.
The Linux kernel
is responsible for allocating the computer's resources and scheduling user jobs
A Linux pipeline
passes the output of one program to another program as input.
Currently, the most challenging issue in operating system design
security
Device-independent input and output in a Linux system means:
that input and output can be redirected to any appropriate device.
Linux was written in
C
The C Programming Language was developed by
Dennis Ritchie
File security in Linux is provided by
File Access permissions
The most essential thing that a beginner needs to know before operating in Linux is:
How to log in and log out
