Linux+ Review Set 2

The concept of ____ enables software developers to read other developers' source code, modify that source code to make the software better, and redistribute that

The ____ stipulates that the source code of any software published under its license must be freely available.

Consider the phrase "collaboration between several developers with a common need speeds up software creation, and when bugs in the software are found by theseusers, bug fixes are created very quickly" from the chapter. This statement describes which advantage of the Linux operating system?

HOWTO documents are centrally collected by the

Which is the greatest expense for companies using Linux?

the source code for Linux was released in

The core component of the GUI in Linux is referred to as

An ______service allows users to post messages in forums

An_______ service provides an efficient method for transferring files over the Internet

Because you need to document so many pieces of hardware and software information, you should create a _____________ that contains all important installation information as well as hardware information.

During Linux installation, you need to configure a minimum of ______accounts

The _____ directory contains system commands and utilities

the shell that is used by default in Linux is the ____ shell

which Linux command gets you out of your current shell

The command that displays the calendar for the current month is

____is the metacharacter for command termination

To find all of the command that have the word "list" in their name or description, you would type________

to move from the /home/joe/test/data to the /home/joe directory, use the _________command

If you type enough unique letters of a directory and press____ key, the BASH shell will find the intended file or directory being specified and fill in the appropriate information

Most files on a Linux system that contain configuration information are________ files

The __command can be used to provide a long listing for each file in a certain directory.

using wildcard meta-characters, how can one indicate a number is either 1, 2, 3, or 4?

to display the contents of a file called data, use the command

which is an extended regular expression meta-character/

the___ regular expression meta-character matches 0 or more occurrences of the previous character

the _ can be used with LISP artificial intelligence programming language and supports hundreds of keyboard functions like the vi editor

the ___ editor is functionally analogous to the Windows Wordpad and Notepad editors

In the FHS, the _____directory contains most system commands and utilities

Copying a file can be accomplished using the ________ command

In a file's mode if a permission is unavailable, a(n) character replaces its position in the mode

to set all of the special permissions on a certain file or directory, you can use the command_where name is the name of the file or directory

the ____device file represents the second serial port on the system (COM2)

if you do not know the type, major, or minor number of a device, you can use the _command to recreate teh device bsaed on the common name

CD-ROMs typically use the ____ filesytem type

Data is read off of hard disks in concentric circles called

you can edit the quotas for certain users by using the _ command

If a Linux installation ends abnormally and the screen displays a "fatal signal_" error message, it indicates an error know as a segmentation fault

___ installation log files is/are created by the Fedora installation program

the file descriptor stderr is represented by the number

You can redirect a file to the standard input of command using the ______metacharaccter

the _command counts the number of lines, words, and characters in a file

The __command can be used to extract, manipulate and format ext using pattern-action statments

Most configuration files on Linux systems are delimited using ___characters

to see a list of the environment variables an their current values on a system, you can use the __ command

the ___ environment file is always executed immediately after login for all user s on the system, and sets most environment variables, such as HOME and PATh

If you have __permission to a shell script, you can execute the shell script like any other executable program on the system

The _______ escape sequence represents a form feed

after the entries in /etc/inittab have been execute,d the _ file is executed to perform tasks that must occur after system startum

_____________ is a freely available version of X Windows used in many Linux distros

If your system uses the X.org implementation of X Windows, the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and video adapter card information is stored in the _ file in text format