Linux History
This Finnish software developer is the namesake of the Linux operating system.
Who is Linus Torvalds?
LibreOffice was forked from this office suite.
What is OpenOffice?
This command is used to create an empty file.
What is touch?
This command is used to test connectivity between two devices by sending ICMP echo requests.
What is ping?
This Linux distribution is widely used for penetration testing and cybersecurity.
What is Kali Linux?
Linux was inspired by this Unix-like operating system.
What is Minix?
Red Star OS, North Korea’s Linux-based operating system, was originally based on this distribution.
What is Fedora?
This command displays the last 10 lines of a file by default.
What is tail?
A Linux user can monitor network traffic in real-time using this command.
What is tcpdump?
This is the full meaning of the sudo command.
What is Super User Do?
The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 1.0, was released in this year.
What is 1994?
Of the following, this command would be the correct way to remove the French language pack on a Debian-based system
A. Sudo apt purge language-pack-fr
B. Sudo apt remove language-pack-fr
C. Sudo rm -fr /
D. Sudo rm -fr /etc/locale.gen
What is Sudo apt purge language-pack-fr or Sudo apt remove language-pack-fr?
To search for a specific word inside a text file, you can use this command followed by the filename.
What is grep?
SSH operates over this default port number.
What is port 22?
This daemon is responsible for scheduling and automating recurring tasks in Linux.
What is cron?
Leaked in the late 1990s, these Microsoft documents revealed plans to undermine open-source software.
What are the Halloween Documents?
Of the following, this is not a package manager supported by any Linux distribution:
A. Rpm
B. Yum
C. Apt
D. Awk
E. Nix
What is Awk?
Running chmod 755 myscript.sh does this to the file’s permissions.
What is "gives the owner full permissions (read, write, execute) and grants read + execute permissions to the group and others"?
This command-line utility allows users to configure firewall rules and filter network traffic.
What is iptables?
The acronym "GNU" stands for this phrase.
What is "GNU’s Not Unix"?
This nonprofit organization oversees the development of LibreOffice.
What is The Document Foundation?
An infamous OS built from the ground up by Terry Davis using C+.
What is Temple OS?
This command allows a process to continue running even after the user logs out.
What is nohup?
This command displays all currently open network connections on a Linux system.
What is netstat -tulnp or ss -tulnp?
This command allows users to adjust the priority of a process for CPU scheduling.
What is nice?