Linux is sort of like the little engine that could. Despite what some call seemingly insurmountable odds, it keeps making gains in the enterprise. How much do you know about Linux? Our quiz will tell.
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1. This company hopes to attract Windows expatriots by
promoting an easy way for the average desktop user to migrate
to Linux.
a. Exim
b.
Peoplesoft
c.
SuSE
d.
WebSphere
e.
Mobitex
2. This is the part of the Linux operating system that
Linus Torvalds wrote.
a. kernel
b.
centrex
c.
BIOS
d.
shell
e.
BeOS
3. This is a graphical user interface (GUI) and set of
computer desktop applications for Linux users.
a. Gnutella
b.
Galileo
c.
GIMP
d.
GNOME
e.
GNU
4. This approach to building a supercomputer often
incorporates the Linux OS as a way to lower cost and increase
vendor independency.
a. Beowulf
b.
ring
network
c. collaborative
authoring
d. Internet2
e.
Unicode
5. This popular text editor created by Richard Stallman
provides typed commands and special key combinations that let
you add, delete, insert, and otherwise manipulate words,
letters, lines, and other units of text.
a. shebang
b.
text
on nine keys
c. Emacs
d.
vi
e.
command
line interface
6. This was one of the first companies to realize that
"free" software could be conveniently packaged and sold as a
product.
a. SeeBeyond
b.
Red
Book
c. Handspring
d.
Mosaic
e.
Red
Hat
7. This network file system is a popular freeware program
that allows end users to access and use files, printers, and
other commonly shared resources on a company's intranet or on
the Internet.
a. Samba
b.
LISP
c.
Tux
d.
Darwin
e.
NetWare
8. The client/server relationship is reversed in this open,
cross-platform system for managing a windowed GUI in a
distributed network.
a. Distributed
interNet Applications Architecture
b. Open
Systems Interconnection
c. DARPANet
d. reverse
Telnet
e. X
Window System
9. This is a popular and freely-available Linux package
that that uses the Linux kernel and other program components
obtained from the GNU project.
a. Lynx
b. Debian
c. OASIS
d. Fizt
e. CORBA
10. This is a script language and interpreter that is
freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers as an
alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page
(ASP)technology.
a. PHP
b. ActionScript
c. AUP
d. OpenGL
e. CRON
script
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Be sure to take these other quizzes:
Quiz #1: Help Desk Basics
Quiz #2: Security Basics
Quiz #3: Data Storage
Quiz #4: Networking Hardware
Quiz #5: Getting Your Message Across the Network
Quiz #6: Servers
Quiz #7: Protocols
Quiz #8: Database Basics
Quiz #9: Wireless
Quiz #10: TCP/IP
Quiz #11: Ego-Booster
Quiz #12: Database II
Quiz #13: AS/400
Quiz #14: Peripherals
Quiz #15: HP
Quiz #16: Web Management Basics
Quiz #17: DSL
Quiz #18: Do you know me? You should!
Quiz #19: Artificial Intelligence
Quiz #20: Cryptography
Quiz #21: We're Going to the Zoo!
Quiz #22: Web Site Performance
Quiz #23: Firewalls
Quiz #24: Web Services
Quiz #25: Security
Quiz #26: Storage Smarts
Quiz #27: Security Awareness for End-users
Quiz #28: Ethernet
Quiz #29: iSeries (AS/400) Commands
Quiz #30: Troubleshooting
Quiz #31: Laptops
Quiz #32: Securing your network
Quiz #33: Logic Chips
Quiz #34: Workstations
Quiz #35: Common Vulnerabilities
Quiz #36: Linux Basics (you're on this quiz now)
Answers:
1c; 2a; 3d; 4a; 5c; 6e; 7a; 8e; 9b; 10a
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This was first published in July 2003