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Week Two
Chapter 1 Review Questions
1. An operating system does not provide .d. word-processing features for users.
2. Four possible Linux career paths are software development, business consultant, network administrator, and teaching or training.
3. Linus Torvalda began to create Linux because .b. he wanted a powerful operating system but could not afford one.
4. The Free software Foundation is dedicated to the idea that .b. the real value of software is in customization, not in selling mass-produced copies.
5. The GNU Project is important to Linux because .a. it provides the majority of the system utilities used by Linux.
6. The GPL includes all of the following facets except: .c. software that runs on a GPL operating system must be given away.
7. In general usage, the name “open source software” refers to .c. software that has source code included and follows a set of general principles espoused by the OpenSource consortium. (I am not real sure this is the correct answer)
8. In the Linux kernel version 2.6.10 the second digit, 6, indicates .b. a minor kernel release number for a stable kernel.
9. Version numbers for Linux distributions don’t track Linux kernel version numbers because .a. distributions include many components, so the vendor assigns a version number to the collection of software as a whole.
10. HOWTO documents discuss a variety of specific subjects. They are written for .c. anyone new to the subject being discussed.
11. The .a. / directory is the beginning of the Linux directory structure—the top of the inverted tree.
12. The pwd command is used to .c. display the current working directory on the screen.
13. The command Ls –l in invalid because .b. Linux commands are case sensitive.
14. Which task is not likely to be assigned to you as a system administrator? .a. Develop a new cash register system using C programming.
15. Linux file names can include .d. letters, digits, punctuation, and many special characters (but no spaces)
16. The rm command is used in Linux to .b. delete files from a hard disk. (use caution)
17. A trash can facility on a Linux graphical desktop differs from the rm command in that .a. files placed in the trash can are not deleted until the trash can is empties, but files deleted by rm are deleted immediately.
18. Each answer contains several paths separated by semicolons. Which answer contains only absolute paths? .c. /var/named; /etc/samba; /home/abutler.
19. Within the Nautilus file manager, you can view the properties of a selected file or directory by .d. right-clicking the file or directory and selecting the Properties item for the context menu.
20. Within the Nautilux file manager, pressing Shift+Ctrl+N is analogous to which command? .a. mkdir
21. Which of the following commands is most likely to produce the following output on the screen? /home/abutler. .c. pwd
22. You see in the output of ls –l an unrecognized file. You wonder what it contains. Your first step should be to use which command? .b. cat
23. If the slocate command fails to function as expected, it is likely because .b. the index of file and directory names has not been created using updateb.
24. In Red Hat Linux, documentation files dedicated to each installed software package are stored .a. in the /usr/share/doc directory.
25. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line includes several versions such as .b. WS, ES, and Fedora.