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Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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GUI terminal

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Program within the GUI environment that emulates a terminal window

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Kernel decides which _____ gets which blocks of ______

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program; memory

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2
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multitasking

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When kernel handles the switching of applications

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3
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Linux Software fall into 3 categories

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Server Applications: serve information to other computers, called clients.

Desktop Applications: web browsers, text editors, music players, etc.

Tools: Software that exists to manage computer systems.

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Apache

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dominant web server in use today

Apache HTTPD is the daemon that serves web page requests.

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5
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Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)

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Software used to transfer electronic messages to other systems

Ex: Sendmail, Postfix

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Mail Delivery Agent (MDA)

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Takes care of storing the email in the user’s mailbox.

Also known as Local Delivery Agent

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POP/IMAP Server

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two communication protocols that let an email client running on your computer talk to a remote server to pick up the email

Ex: Dovecot, Cyrus IMAP

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8
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Samba

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Windows-centric file sharing

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Network File System (NFS)

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Native file sharing protocol for UNIX/Linux

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Netatalk

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Lets a Linux machine perform as an Apple Macintosh file server

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11
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Internet Software Consortium

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maintains the most popular DNS server, called bind

Also maintains the ISC DHCP

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OpenLDAP

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dominant program used in Linux infrastructure for LDAP

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13
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shell

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how Linux users interact with the system by inputting commands

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Two main families of shell

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Bourn and C shell

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15
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More modern shells such as _____ & _____

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Bourne Again Shell (Bash); tcsh

16
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Nano

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Simple text editor but not as extensive as Vim (Vi)

17
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Packages

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compressed files that bundle up an application and its dependencies

18
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Package manager

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takes care of keeping track which files belong to which package and even downloading updates

19
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Debian package management

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Software packages that ends in .deb extension

Used by Debian bistro and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Mint

Use dpkg command or apt-get

20
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RPM

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Package management system used in Red Hat, Centos, Fedora and its extension ends in .rpm

Can use rpm command but front end uses yum and up2date

21
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interpreted language

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translates the written code into computer code as the program runs

22
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compiled language

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translated all at once

23
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PHP

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language initially built to create dynamic web pages

24
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Perl

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interpreted language to perform text manipulation

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