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Basic Linux Information

Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh

Last Updated on December 12, 2021

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1.

Linux is technically a:

File Manager

Web Browser

Kernel

Toolkit

2.

Linux is commonly known as a:

File System

Operating System

Hardware

Web browser

3.

A Linux distribution is a:

Software package

File manager

Magazine title

Movement

4.

A Linux distribution contains:

A kernel and operating system software

A kernel and Windows programs

Books distributed by Linux

Linux video tutorials

5.

Which of the following is a Linux distribution:

Chrome

Emacs

Ubuntu

KDE

6.

Linux distributions are made by:

The Linux Foundation

The GNU project

DistroWatch

Users and communities

7.

The first program that runs when a computer starts is a:

boot loader

kernel

software starter

Linux

8.

A boot loader is responsible for loading:

The BIOS

The database connection

The kernel software

The desktop environment

9.

Which of the following is a boot loader:

Debian

GRUB

GIMP

Emacs

10.

A kernel is responsible for

Starting the boot loader

Only making RAM work

Initializing the operating system

Building the BIOS

11.

GRUB is maintained by

The Linux Foundation

The GNU Project

The Free Software Foundation

Google

12.

Desktop environments are:

Software screen drivers

Networking tools

Image editing programs

Graphical user interfaces

13.

A user interface is a:

Way of accessing the system

Packaging program

Distribution ISO

Web browser

14.

Which of the following is a commercial Linux distribution:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Mint

Arch Linux

Debian

15.

To manage programs on Linux you can use:

.exe file manager

A package manager

A software editor

A web browser

16.

A display manager is:

A graphical login user interface

A program manager

The hardware that manages the screen

A screen driver

17.

A display server is:

A graphical login user interface

A program that coordinates user input and output with the operating system

A program that installs and uninstalls software packages from the Internet

Any screen recording program

18.

GNU tools are:

A set of kernels

Software programs

Hardware tools

A C compiler and a command line interface

19.

Linux and GNU are:

A kernel and software tools combined into an operating system

Two companies working together to maintain an operating system

Linux is the hardware, GNU is the software

Two programming languages

20.

Linux has a graphical user interface that:

Looks the same across all distributions

Displays graphical programs in text format

The Linux kernel does not have a graphical user interface

Can only be used via the command line

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