Category 1
This device does the following in an OS: connects hardware, manages processes, manages memory, and enables programs to use the network.
What is the kernel?
This type of program code is open to the public, free to allow them to edit it at will.
What is open source?
This man created the GNU Public License in the 1980s.
Who is (Richard) Stallman?
The original owner of the Unix trademark is this modern day popular cell phone company.
What is AT&T?
The term for a customized Linux OS comprised of the kernel, GNU tools and libraries is known as this.
What is a distribution or distro?
This is another name for programs that run on an OS, such as Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer.
These are the four laws of a GNU Public License.
What are: 1) Use software for any purpose
2) Change software
3) Share software with others
4) Any changes to software are also licensed under the same license?
The distro of Linux that a lot of web servers use can be referred to as these.
What are Redhat or CentOS (both responses must be included)?
This is an example of an embedded Linux OS (multiple correct answers allowed)
What is an Android (or any other example you can think of)?
These two OSes are "distant" cousins to Unix.
What are Linux and Minix?
This is the acronym for central processing unit.
What is CPU?
Switching code to a binary distribution or licensing code so it can't be altered is known by this term.
What is proprietary code?
This is the distro of Linux our current class is using.
What is Debian or Ubuntu?
The original creator of the Linux Kernel is this man, who created the OS in 1991.
Who is (Linus) Torvalds?
The first commercial version of Unix is known as this.
What is BSD Unix?
Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are examples of these.
What are operating systems (OS)?
Containing non-open source code, this OS was created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the late 1980s.
What is Minux?
The acronym for Command Line Interface is known as this (low resources-large leaning curve)
What is CLI?
These men created Unix in 1969.
Who are (Ken) Thompson and (Dennis) Ritchie?
True or False: Linux has a GUI mode.
True
This distant cousin of Linux was created at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in 1969?
What is Unix?
Linus Torvalds signature creation in 1991 is known as this.
What is Linux?
This is the acronym for Graphical User interface (high resources - easy to learn).
What is GUI?
This is an example of a distro of Linux that isn't known for web servers (and isn't used in our class)
What is Slackware or SUSE?
True or False: If you are in a Linux GUI, you can't use text commands.
False