Distros
General Linux
Commands
100

What is the best distro?


Bonus Points: Second best?

Arch, of course!


Bonus Points: Fedora

100

Who wrote the Linux kernel?


Bonus Points: Within 3 years, what year was it first written it?

Linus Torvolds


Bonus Points: 1991

100

What commands are used to copy files, list the files in your directory, and change directories?

cp, ls, cd

200

Name the package managers for Debian, Gentoo, Arch, and Ubuntu in that order

APT, Portage, Pacman, APT

200

What is the other thing Linus is known for creating?


Git

200

What command allows you to change the file's read, write, and execute permissions?


Bonus Points: what command lets you search for a pattern in a file?

chmod



Bonus Points: grep

300

What is the oldest Linux distro that is still maintained?

Slackware

300

What license is the Linux Kernel under?


Bonus Points: What language is Linux primarily written in?

GPL 2


Bonus Points: C

300

What flags should I use to extract a .tar.gz file?

tar -xzf

400

Name 7 DEs


Bonus Points: Name 7 WMs

Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, Pantheon, Budgie, LXQt, Deepin, LXDE, Enlightenment, CDE, Sugar


Bonus Points: i3, Awesome, Sway, Fluxbox, OpenBox, Blackbox, Window Maker, Xmonad, Cwm, dwm, icewm, Herbstluftwm, TWM, Ratpoison, bspwm, Qtile, Spectrwm, tmux, JWM

400

What is the alternative mascot to Tux? (not a GNU)

Name and animal!

Xenia the Fox

400

How would I use ffmpeg to resize a 1080p video into a 720p video?

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=1280:720" output.mp4

500

Where does the name Debian come from?

It is a combination of the name of its founder, Ian Murdock, and his girlfriend of the time, Debra Lynn

Deb-Ian

500

Linux wasn't originally going to be called Linux! What was its name going to be?


Bonus Points: Why was it called this(what words were used to make this)

FreaX


Bonus Points: free, freak, Unix

500

How do I download subtitles from a YouTube video using yt-dlp?

yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-lang "en" "URL"


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