Chapter 1: Starting with Linux.

Question 1

The features of Linux DMMPPPCOS

Answer 1

1. Detecting and preparing hardware
2. Managing processes
3. Managing memory
4. Providing user interfaces
5. Controlling filesystems
6. Providing user access and authentication
7. Offering administrative utilities
8. Starting up services
9. Programming tools

Question 2

Advanced features in Linux CVCRS

Answer 2

1. Clustering
2. Virtualization
3. Cloud computing
4. Real-time computing
5. Specialized storage

Question 3

Rules for acceptable open-source licenses FINNDDLLL

Answer 3

1. Free distribution
2. Derived works
3. Integrity of the author’s source code
4. Source code
5. No discrimination against persons or groups
6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor
7. Distribution of license
8. License must not be specific to a product
9. License must not restrict other software
10. License must be technology-neutral

Question 4

Popular OSI-approved licenses

Answer 4

1. LGPL
2. BSD
3. MIT
4. Mozilla

Question 5

LGPL

Answer 5

Lesser General Public License

Used for distributing libraries

Question 6

BSD

Answer 6

Berkeley Software Distribution License
allows redistribution source code
Code to keep the BSD copyright notice
Does not does not require
changed code to be passed to the community

Question 7

MIT

Answer 7

MIT license
Doesn’t include the endorsement
and promotion requirement.

Question 8

Mozilla

Answer 8

covers use and redistribution of source code associated
with the Firefox
contains more definitions of how contributors and those
reusing the source code should behave
A file of changes must be
submitted for modifications

Question 9

How Linux Differs from Other

Operating Systems

Answer 9

see the code
check the code to find bugs,
plug your own software easily into the operating system