Memory Management
History
Device Management
User Interface
Processor Management
100
What is the algorithm used by virtual memory?
Buddy Algorithm
100
What were the three main design goals?
Modularity, Simplicity, and Portability.
100
What is the device manager for the Linux Kernel?
Udev
100
True or False: The User interface is the portion of the operating system that users interact with directly.
True
100
What is the main type of process management in Linux?
Parent-child
200
Least Recently Used What algorithm does the memory manager use to release pages from memory?
Least Recently Used
200
What were the 2 directions Linux went in 2003?
Red Hat and Fedora Project.
200
Which version of Linux was Udev introduced in?
Version 2.5
200
What is the name of the new user interface that replaced the command line?
GUI (Graphical user interface)
200
How many processes can synchronize with each other due to the wait queues and semaphores?
two
300
What does Linux use to load pages into memory as they are needed?
Demand Paging
300
Who was the creator of Linux?
Linus Torvalds
300
What are two common functions of Linux device drivers?
Open and Release
300
Name 2 of the 3 environments that Linux provides for its users.
Desktops, Window managers, and command line shells.
300
True or False: Linux was the first operating system to use macro instructions for the process scheduling.
False
400
What size page frames can Linux break up evenly in demand paging?
256MB
400
Which network protocols does Linux Use?
TCP/IP
400
True or False: Linux does not allow new device classes to support new technology?
False
400
Name 2 of the 3 major shells that exist in Linux.
Bourne, Korn, C shell
400
Name one of the three scheduling policies used by Linux.
FIFO, Round Robin, Priority.
500
How much memory is associated with the Linux kernel?
1GB
500
What is the operating system on Linux considered?
Open Source
500
Name one of the developers of Udev from November 2003.
Greg Kroah-Hartman and Kay Sievers
500
Name the network transparent desktop that includes the standard desktop features.
KDE (K desktop environment)
500
True or False: Only when all FIFO processes are complete does the scheduler proceed to execute processes of lower priority.
True
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