Development Jiirgen Bitzer and Philipp J. H. Srhroder (Editurs) O 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V. Linux vs. Windows: A Comparison of Application and Platform Innovation Incentives for Open Source and Proprietary Software Platforms Nicholas Economides and Evangelos Katsamakas ABSTRACT The chapter analyzes and compares the investment incentives of platform and application developers for Linux and Windows. We find that the level of investment in applications is larger when the operating system
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WINDOWS VS LINUX Ali Elreda ENG 352-456 Professor Moylan 3/16/2013 Table of Contents Abstract This article is a comparison between two similar but yet different operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux. One will have a clear idea about each of these systems and would not find it difficult choosing between them. An operating system is somewhat a software program that connects the users with the hardware of the computer. Without an operating system a computer is useless. There
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LINUX / Open Source Software - Case Study #3 BUS 326 Integrated Information Systems LINUX Case Study #3 1) How does Linux differ from traditional software? Linux differs from traditional software because the operating system is open on the Internet. It allows programmers to continuously improve code while with proprietary programs; you have to use the programming company it belongs to. Open source software issues are resolved quickly‚ usually within days or weeks; proprietary
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1. What is the significance of creating Groups and adding Users to Groups? By creating groups you can get people access to the information that they need to get to. When a user is created and added to a group that user then has the access permissions of the group that has been made. 2. Given a scenereo where there are 5 database admins that may periodically need access to a given system. Discuss a better concept to better manage the admins access permissions. Break down admin responsabilities
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record points to a domain. What are mx resource records for? identifies the email servers for a domain How would you find the ip address of example.com from the command line? $ hostname example.com or $ dig example.com How would you instruct a linux system to use the local network? Dns cache located at 192.168.1.254 or the isp’s Dns cache ‚located at 1.2.3.4‚ if lan nameserver is unavailable ? Tree files to check on. etc man host.conf will tell you about the order option etc Is for
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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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Free Software Foundation/GNU? What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating system did each provide? Who else has helped build and refine this operating system? Answer: 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 of people helped refine
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others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this You are free to (1)study it‚ (2)redistribute it‚ and (3) modify it. 2. Why is Linux popular? Why is it popular in academia? Bell Labs offered it to educational institutions at nominal cost. The schools‚ in turn‚ used it in their computer science programs‚ ensuring that computer science students became familiar with it. Because
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Comparing Linux Security Applications Introduction The pervasive adoption of the Linux operating system has led to a proliferation of new security tools and applications for ensuring the security of systems and applications. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate chroot jail‚ iptables and SELinux. These three security technologies are evaluated from the standpoint of which organizations were behind their development‚ in addition to an explanation of how each technology changes the Linux 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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