Basics of the Operating System

Heather RussellNT1430 Unit 1 Chapter Exercises Unit 1 Chapter 1 1. What is free bundle? List deuce-ace characteristics of free softw ar. Free software is software that users have the freedom to distri furthere and change. The three main characteristics of free software are The ancestor code has to be distributed with the program, you give noticenot restrict people from redistributing/modifying/ victimisation the software, and users must be solelyowed to redistribute modified versions on a lower floor the same terms/licensing. 4.What is the Free Software cornerstone/GNU? What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating outline did separately provide? Who else has helped build and expatiate this operating dust of rules? GNU raises for GNUS non Unix, and it was designed to be a UNIX-like operating system developed by Richard Stallman. Linux is the quote of operating system kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. GNUs in any casels aside the Linux kernel make the operatin g system known as Linux aka GNU/Linux. Thousands of people helped refine the operating system online.Chapter 2 1. Briefly, what does the process of installment an operating system such as felt hat/RHEL involve? Installing trilby/RHEL is the process of write operating system files from a CD, DVD, or USB shoddy drive to hard disk(s) on a system and setting up configuration files so Linux runs correctly on the hardware. Several types of installations are possible, including fresh installations, upgrades from senior(a) releases of Fedora/RHEL, and dual-boot installations Chapter 3 1. What is a alert system?What advantages does it have over an installed system? A live system gives you a chance to preview Fedora without installing it. It does not write to hard disks. 4. Where on the disk should you put your /boot partition or the root(/) partition if you do not use a /boot partition? Put /boot at the beginning of the drive (partition 1) so that there is no issue of Linux having to boot from a partition too far into the drive. 8. When does a Fedora/RHEL system place X by default? When the system enters outflow Level 5Chapter 11 1 How does single-user mode dissent from multiuser mode? When a system is in single-user mode, you cannister log in only at the console. Not all of the filesystems are mounted, and many daemons are not running. With the system in multiuser mode you can log in at any terminal or workstation that is set up for login, most or all of the filesystems are mounted, and all of the daemons that your system is set up to run are running. 3 What do the garner of the su command stand for? Hint It is not Superuser. ) What can you do with su besides give yourself Superuser privileges? How would you log in as Zach if you did not know his password but knew the root password? How would you establish the same surround that Zach has when he first logs on? The letters stand for substitute user. You can give yourself privileges of any user whose passwo rd you know (or any user when you are running as root). You can also serve a command (other than a shell) as the qualify user.