Chapter 4 Flashcards
Blank is a popular desktop environment for Linux. Its the default desktop environment for openSUSE.
KDE Plasma
Blank is built using the Qt widget set.
KDE Plasma
Blank is the desktop environment for the Fedora and Ubuntu distributions and is built atop the GIMP toolkit widget set.
GNOME
The blank desktop environment was initially available for only the Linux Mint distribution but is now supported by others.
Cinnamon
The blank desktop environment is intended to consume few resources and therefore works well on old or modest computers
Lightweight X11 desktop environment (LXDE)
The blank desktop environment was originally modeled on a commercial desktop known as CDE, but it is built using the GTK+ widget and offers more configurability than GNOME
Xfce
Many desktop environments provide blank along a top, bottom, or side edge of the screen. One or more of these items can give you access to a preselected set of applications
Desktop menus
In some desktop environments, you can place blank in the main area of the desktop. Clicking or double-clicking them launch the applications
Desktop icons
Some desktop environments provide blank on the sides of screens where common applications appear. GNOME shell has these by default.
Panels
You can sometimes right-click on an unused part of the screen to get a blank with a variety of options.
Context menus
Some desktop environments provide an ability to blank a program by name.
Search
You can launch a program called blank , which provides a text-mode user interface and run either a text-based program or GUI program by typing in the filenames in the window.
terminal
GNOME’s default file manager
GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus)
The home locations refers to blank, that is, the directory where you store your own file
home directory
You can add bookmarks, called blank in GNOME, for locations not shown in the main panel
Starred
You can right click a file and select blank from the resulting drop-down menu, allowing you to use the open with tab.
Properties
Name a few techniques to help you find suitable productivity applications (4)
Using desktop menus
Using search features
Using Tables or Equivalent
Using Other’s experitse
Name the web browsers that Linux supports
Chrome
Firefox
Web
Konqueror
Lynx
Opera
What type of web browsers does Linux not support
Microsoft web browsers
Name the most popular web browser for Linux
Firefox
Name some of the issues with browsing the web (5)
1) Websites can log user data
2) Web-content is dynamic, which means you could download malware
3) Malicious websites can trick users to providing sensitive information (phishing)
4) Some websites are not secure
5) Passwords are subject to theft
Name some of the email clients for Linux (4)
Evolution
Kmail
Mutt
Thunderbird
Name the email server closely associated with Firefox
Thunderbird
Which office program was born out of a split from KOffice that offers Words, Stage, Sheets, Flow, and Kexi.
Calligra
Which office suite was donated by Oracle and includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math?
Apache OpenOffice
Which Office suite forked from Apache OpenOffice, is becoming the most popular office suite in Linux, and offers Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math.
LibreOffice
Name 7 multimedia applications for Linux
Audacity
Blender
Castero
GIMP
ImageMagick
Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS)
Kdenlive
Which multimedia application is similar to Adope Photoshop and helped provide a basis for GNOME?
GIMP
Blank is the storage of computing software and/or data over the Internet, rather than storing it locally on your computer
Public cloud computing
Name some public cloud computing resources available for Linux
Netflix
Dropbox
Zoho office
Gmail
Blank is slightly different technology in that the cloud is your computer (or home’s network and its local resources instead of the Internet)
private cloud computing
Using Linux as the server, you can set up a private cloud for file hosting via one of which three software suite resources?
1) ownCloud
2) Nextcloud
3) FileCloud
Files that are stored locally is known by what term?
self-hosting
Although blank is a Linux-based OS, for the most part it runs entirely different applications than do desktop or server implementations of Linux.
Android
Networks, including the Internet, function by means of network blank, which define how two computers should exchange data to achieve a particular end.
protocols
Most protocols are described in one or more standard documents, known as blank, each of which has a number and defines the protocol.
request for comments (RFC) documents
Most network protocols involve transferring data over one or more blank, which are numbered resources on a computer.
ports
The blank is an old protocol for transferring files over a network. It supports both anonymous and password-mediated access. It’s odd in that it uses two ports.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
What protocol uses ports 20 and 21?
FTP
Common server programs like oftpd, Proftpd, Pute-FTPd, and vcftpd uses which port(s)?
20 and 21
The blank is an encrypted remote access tool that supports file transfers and ecrypting other protocols.
Secure Shell (SSH)
What protocol uses port 22?
SSH
OpenSSH uses with port number?
22
Blank is an old unencrytped remote login protocol. It’s seldom used today, but can be a useful network diagnostic tool.
Telnet