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