Exam 16: Linux Operating System

Filenames are not case sensitive in Linux.

Linux terminal management conforms to ____ standards, and it also supports pseudo-terminals as well as process control systems.

In Linux, the ____ character in the Permissions column of a directory listing describes the nature of the folder entry.

Because Linux is written and distributed under the ____ General Public License, its source code is freely distributed and available to the general public.

Fedora Core 2 was introduced in ____.

In Linux,, ____ devices cannot host a file system.

Virtual memory in Linux is managed using a multiple-level table hierarchy, which accommodates both 64- and 32-bit architectures.

Linux offers memory protection based on the type of information stored in each region belonging to the address space of a program.

A file containing data or programs belonging to users is known as a(n) ____.

In Linux, the ____ log lists the status of files that have been transferred using a ftp service.

In Linux device management, the ____ device number is used as an index to the array to access the appropriate code for a specific device driver.

The first primary corporate supporter of Linux was Red Hat Linux, the world's leading Linux distributor until 2005.

Linux brought the speed, efficiency, and flexibility of UNIX to a small computer environment.

Linux was developed by Dennis Ritchie, who wanted to create an operating system to maximize the limited capabilities of the Intel 80386 microprocessor.

In Linux, each process is referenced by a descriptor, which contains approximately fifteen fields describing the process attributes together with the information needed to manage the process.

Only when all FIFO processes are completed does the scheduler proceed to execute processes of ____ priority.

When Linux allocates memory space, it allocates one GB of high-order memory to the kernel and three GB of memory to executing processes.

Information about the well-being of a Linux system is available using the System Monitor window.

When a process requests pages, Linux loads them into disk.

Filenames that begin with one or two periods are considered ____ files.