Unix and Pseudo Command Line Essay

Submitted By Dvorac-Johnson
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Pages: 2

1. It’s software that allow users the freedom to distribute and change and its three main characteristics are:
a. The source code has to be distributed with the program,
b. Users must be allowed to redistribute modified versions under the same terms/licensing,
c. You cannot restrict people from redistributing/modifying/using the software. 4. It stands for "GNU'S Not Unix", and it was developed by Richard Stallman. It was designed to be a UNIX-like operating system. Linus Torvalds developed the Linux operating system kernel. Aside from the GNU's tools, the Linux kernel make the operating system known as “Linux” aka “GNU/Linux”. There are possibly hundreds of thousands, of people helping to refine the operating system since it is distributed freely online.

1. When installing it copies the operating system files from a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive to the hard disk on a system and setting up configuration files so Linux runs properly on the hardware. There are several types of installations, possible options include fresh installations, upgrades from older releases of Fedora, and dual-boot.

1. A live system allows you to preview Fedora without installing it. It won’t write/install to hard disks.
4. 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. 8. When the system enters runlevel 5
Chapter 11 1, 3, 7
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a. Single user mode: only the console user may be logged in, though the user can edit