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Section 3: Open Source Application Flashcards

Learning about what open source is and why it is important.

1
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What is Open Source Software?

A

Software released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute it to anyone and for any purpose.

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What is the Open Source Initiative?

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Is a public benefit corporation that promotes the usage of open source software

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What is the OSD?

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Open Source Definition: A document which determines whether a software license can be labeled with the open source verification mark

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What is wireshark?

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an open source server application that is protocol analyzer. Captures network traffic.

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What is Gparted?

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An open source server aplication software that is a disk partion tool.

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What is timeshift?

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Open source equivalent to timemachine in MAC. You can take snapshots.

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What is Atom?

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An open source, simple text editor.

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What is Putty?

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An open source application terminal client used by system administrators.

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What terminal command displays contents of files?

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gedit

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What is a package manager?

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Automatically download appropriate packages from its repository and set it up for you. It will also download the latest updates for every piece of software.

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Why don’t Linux users normally download and install applications form application websties?

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Each distro has its own application repository with packages compiled for its version.

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What do archives contain?

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Archives contain a list of files.

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What does the file extension .deb mean?

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It was created for the debian distro.

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What does the file extension rpm stand for

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Redhat Package Manager ( used by Red Hat, Fedora and OpenSUSE distros)

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What does .tar .tgz and .tar.gz files extensions mean?

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These are considered a universal package formatand is used by distros such as Arch Linux and Slackware

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What does PPA stand for?

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Personal Package Archive

18
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What does file extensions .exe stand for?

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Executable file ( used by windows and not Linux)

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Which package format is used by Ubuntu?

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.deb because it is a debian based distro.

20
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What do all OS’s have?

A

A kernel

21
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What does a Kernel do?

A

Directly controls hardware and translates software commands into hardware specific requests. It manages the hardware resources intelligently by allocating memory efficiently.

22
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What are modular desktops?

A

You can have different desktops on your Linux distro. Its customizable.

23
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What does BASH stand for?

A

Bourne Again Shell

24
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What is BASH?

A

Acts as the shell program within the command line interface.

25
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what does CD command stand for?

A

Change Directory

26
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MV

A

move one file to another directory

27
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touch

A

create a file

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mkdir

A

make a directory

29
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locate

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search function for files inside file system.

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rm

A

remove/ delete file

31
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rmdir

A

remove directory

32
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clear

A

clear terminal screen

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What is a package ?

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A compressed file archive containing all of the files that come with a particular application.

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Examples of package managers?

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Apt, Yum and Pacman

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What tools with you use in debian distro to install software?

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dpgk, apt-get and apt

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What directly controls hardware and translates the commands given from a piece of software into the something the hardware can understand and act upon?

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Kernel

37
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What program takes the commands from the keyboard and gives them to the kernel to execute?

A

Shell

38
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What program is used to access the shell?

A

Terminal ( text based command line program that is used in Linux to directly access the shell)

39
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What are dependencies?

A

A term for a package that is a pre-req required for installation of another program.

40
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Is the application packaging the same for each distro family?

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false

Udemy Dion's Linux Essential Exam Prep (5 decks)

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