Introduction: Comparisons between the Microsoft Windows and Linux computer operating systems are a long-running discussion topic within the personal computer industry. Throughout the entire period of the Windows 9x systems through the introduction of Windows 7‚ Windows has retained an extremely large retail sales majority among operating systems for personal desktop use‚ while Linux has sustained its status as the most prominent free software operating system. After their initial clash‚ both operating
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Linux admin interview questions 1. How do you take a single line of input from the user in a shell script? 2. Write a script to convert all DOS style backslashes to UNIX style slashes in a list of files. 3. Write a regular expression (or sed script) to replace all occurrences of the letter ‘f’‚ followed by any number of characters‚ followed by the letter ‘a’‚ followed by one or more numeric characters‚ followed by the letter ‘n’‚ and replace what’s found with the string “UNIX”.
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NT1430 Linux Networking: Study Guide Wed 21-November-2012 Linux Commands: Know these commands and what they do: • Directory and list commands o ls‚ ls –l o pwd o cd / o cd and cd~ (hint: both take you to your home directory) o cd .. (takes you up one directory • Know what cp and mv do and how to use them • File viewing commands: o cat o less and more (one page at atime) o vi and view o tail (shows the last 10 lines of a file) o head (shows the top 10 lines) • chmod for changing permissions
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3.1 Installing the Operating System and Applications To install Linux‚ you follow a simple‚ step-by-step procedure that has three main phases: Installing the operating system kernel and base system Configuring the new Linux system Installing applications WARNING: Although the Linux installation procedure is generally troublefree‚ errors or malfunctions that occur during the installation of an operating system can result in loss of data. You should not begin the installation procedure
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: Linux and Unix Unix is popular operating system‚ developed by AT&T in 1969 and it has been very important to the development of the Internet. It is a multi-processing‚ multi-user‚ family of operating systems that run on a variety of architechtures. UNIX allows more than one user to access a computer system at the same time. A widely used Open Source Unix-like operating system kernel. Linux was first released by its inventor Linus Torvalds in 1991. Combining the Linux kernel with the GNU software
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6 Stages of Linux Boot Process (Startup Sequence) Press the power button on your system‚ and after few moments you see the Linux login prompt. Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes from the time you press the power button until the Linux login prompt appears? The following are the 6 high level stages of a typical Linux boot process. 1. BIOS BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System Performs some system integrity checks Searches‚ loads‚ and executes the boot loader program
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LINUX VS WINDOWS LINUX VS WINDOWS LINUX WINDOWS • Linux is an example of Open Source software development and Free Operating System (OS). • Linux can be freely distributed‚ downloaded freely‚ distributed through magazines‚ Books etc. There are priced versions for Linux also‚ but they are normally cheaper than Windows. . • Windows is the family of operating system (OS) from Microsoft‚ which is the most famous OS in the world. • For desktop or home use‚ Windows can be expensive. A single copy
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on time‚ and also for applications that depend on keeping good time. 2. “Root” is the user name or account that by default has access to all commands and files on a Linux OS. It is also referred to as the root account‚ root user and the superuser. 3. It is intended primarily for workstation use--i.e.‚ personal computing on a Linux box. 4. “p” for primary‚”e” for extended‚ and “l” for logical partitions 5. a. Make it easier to recover a corrupted file system or operating system installation
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Process Handling in Linux POS 420 October 11‚ 2005 In Linux processes communicate with each other and with the kernel to coordinate their activities. Linux supports a number of Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms. Signals and pipes are two of them but Linux also supports the System V IPC mechanisms named after the Unix TM release in which they first appeared. Signals are one of the oldest inter-process communication methods used by Unix TM systems. The common Linux shells all allow redirection
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Hamish Whittal Shell Scripting by Hamish Whittal Published 2005-01-25 22:36:19 Copyright © 2004 The Shuttleworth Foundation Unless otherwise expressly stated‚ all original material of whatever nature created by the contributors of the Learn Linux community‚ is licensed under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/] license Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]. What follows is a copy of the "human-readable
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