Section 3: Open Source Application

Question 1

What is Open Source Software?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

What is the Open Source Initiative?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is the OSD?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is wireshark?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is Gparted?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is timeshift?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is Atom?

Answer 7

An open source, simple text editor.

Question 8

What is Putty?

Answer 8

An open source application terminal client used by system administrators.

Question 10

What terminal command displays contents of files?

Answer 10

gedit

Question 11

What is a package manager?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What do archives contain?

Answer 13

Archives contain a list of files.

Question 14

What does the file extension .deb mean?

Answer 14

It was created for the debian distro.

Question 15

What does the file extension rpm stand for

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What does PPA stand for?

Answer 17

Personal Package Archive

Question 18

What does file extensions .exe stand for?

Answer 18

Executable file ( used by windows and not Linux)

Question 19

Which package format is used by Ubuntu?

Answer 19

.deb because it is a debian based distro.

Question 20

What do all OS’s have?

Answer 20

A kernel

Question 21

What does a Kernel do?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What are modular desktops?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does BASH stand for?

Answer 23

Bourne Again Shell

Question 24

What is BASH?

Answer 24

Acts as the shell program within the command line interface.

Question 25

what does CD command stand for?

Answer 25

Change Directory

Question 26

MV

Answer 26

move one file to another directory

Question 27

touch

Answer 27

create a file

Question 28

mkdir

Answer 28

make a directory

Question 29

locate

Answer 29

search function for files inside file system.

Question 30

rm

Answer 30

remove/ delete file

Question 31

rmdir

Answer 31

remove directory

Question 32

clear

Answer 32

clear terminal screen

Question 33

What is a package ?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Examples of package managers?

Answer 34

Apt, Yum and Pacman

Question 35

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

Answer 35

dpgk, apt-get and apt

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Kernel

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Shell

Question 38

What program is used to access the shell?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What are dependencies?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Is the application packaging the same for each distro family?

Answer 40

false