NT1430
12/15/13
Chapter 1 #1, 4 1. Free software is software that users have the freedom to distribute and change. The three main characteristics of free software are: The source code has to be distributed with the program, users must be allowed to redistribute modified versions under the same terms/licensing, and you can not restrict people from redistributing/modifying/using the software.
4. GNU stands for "GNU'S Not Unix", and it was designed to be a UNIX-like operating system developed by Richard Stallman. Linux is the name of operating system kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. GNU's tools aside the Linux kernel make the operating system known as “Linux” aka “GNU/Linux”. Thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of people helped refine the operating system because it was distributed freely online.
Chapter 2 # 1 1. Installing Fedora/RHEL uses the process of copying 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. Several types of installations are possible including fresh installations, upgrades from older releases of Fedora, and dual-boot.
Chapter 3 #1, 4, 8 1. A live system gives you a chance to preview Fedora without installing it. It does not 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. When the system enters runlevel 5
Chapter 11 #1, 3, 7 1. In single user mode, only the console user may be logged in, though the user can edit files and execute multiple programs simultaneously. In full multi-user mode, dozens, hundreds or even thousands of users may be logged into a single Linux machine simultaneously, each user editing files and executing multiple programs simultaneously. The thousands of logged in users do not all have to be in the same room, city, state or province, nation or even on the same continent
3. su stands for substitute user. Besides giving the user root privileges the su command allows the user to log into other users on that system. Use the su command: su –Zach (root pw). To establish the same environment that Zach has when he logs in use the –I command in the sudo command line.
7. I would take a phrase such as “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” and take all of the first letters from the words in the phrase “a,a,a,d,k,t,d,a” and figure in a few “leet speak” characters, capital letters, and other characters to throw it off more. For example “ AaADk7da!” something like that. I don’t personally use this strategy but I probably should.