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title:       GNU+Linux-Quiz (en)
author:      
Copyright:   Andreas K. Foerster
authorlink:  mailto:akfquiz@akfoerster.de
edited:
license:     GPL v2 or later
licenseLink: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
encoding:    US-ASCII
language:    en
layout:      q-school.css
default:     don't know


comment:
correctly answered questions bring you one point, for wrong answers you 
lose one point. The answer "Don't know" is neutral.

question:
To which operating system is GNU+Linux compatible?

-1 Windows
+1 Unix 
-1 it's a system on its own

hint:
Unix was chosen, because it was the only portable operating system at 
that time.

question:
What is the origin of GNU+Linux?

+1 1984 by Richard Stallman
-1 1987 by Andrew Tannenbaum
-1 1991 by Linus Torvalds

hint:
By 1990 the GNU system was an almost complete operating system. 
The only missing thing was a kernel.
.
You can learn more about the history of GNU under 
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html


question:
What has Linus Torvalds developed?

-1 he developed the whole system
+1 he developed the kernel of the system
-1 he is only the coordinator


question:
What is the mascot of Linux?

+1 a penguin
-1 a gnu
-1 a window


question:
On what kind of machines is GNU+Linux running?

-1 on mainframes
-1 on PCs
+1 on a lot of different machines

question:
Does the system have a graphical user environments?

-1 No, there is only the text-console
-1 yes, the environment is called KDE
+1 yes, there are a lot of environments

hint:
Some well known environments are GNOME, KDE, XFCE and WindowMaker...

question:
GNU+Linux and most of the software for it is "free software". 
What does that mean?

-1 it must be available without cost or for a reasonable low price
-1 the source code must be open
+1 you have the freedom to use, read, modify and distribute \
   the software
-1 it's a development model, where a community of developers work \
   together

hint:
Free Software means freedom, not price. 
That means you can charge any deliberate price for it, 
you just may not among other things forbid copying.
.
It is true,  that the source code must be made available, 
but that alone is not enough. That is a just precondition for the 
freedom to read or modify the software.
.
Free Software is free, when the user has all the freedoms -
no matter with which development model the software was developed.
.
Read more about this topic under
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


question:
In which programming language are the basic elements of GNU+Linux 
written? (the kernel, and the GNU tools like bash, tar, gzip and so on)

-1 Assembler
-1 Pascal
+1 C
-1 C++
-1 C#
-1 LISP


question:
Which of these programming languages do not exist for GNU+Linux?

-1 Fortran, Lisp, Pascal, Modula-2, ADA
-1 Java, JavaScript
+1 Visual Basic, Visual C, Visual Java 


question:
Which kernel was created in the GNU project?

-1 BSD
+1 the HURD
-1 Linux

hint:
The HURD was started around the same time as Linux. But the 
development was largely retarded due to some difficult design 
decisions and because Linux was already available. It took more 
than ten years for HURD to run and it is not stable until now 
(2005).


assessment%:
100 Congratulations! Everything right!
70  not bad!
40  acceptable
25  could be better
0   you were just guessing, right?

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