Unix & Linux - General Knowledge Questions

Unix & Linux - General Knowledge Questions

Basic questions and answers about the Unix & Linux world!

published on January 04, 2011
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What is UNIX?

Operating System
Company
Computer Language
2/11

Which company originally developed UNIX?

NASA
Novel
AT&T (Bell Labs)
Apple
IBM
3/11

Lindows changes it's name to Linspire because of this company:

Apple
Google
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
4/11

Which of the following operating systems are based on the UNIX kernel?

Hint: 3 choices
Chrome OS
Windows 7
Mac OS X
Sun Solaris
5/11

Who bought the first commercial Unix license?

6/11

Unix is short for what?

UNIt eXchange
Universal Interactive Executive
Universal Network Information Exchange
UNIX is not an acronym
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Who were the individuals most involved in the beginnings of the UNIX system?

Hint: 4 choices
Bill Joy
Ken Thompson
Dennis Ritchie
M. D. McIlroy
J. F. Ossanna
Linus Torvalds
8/11

Unix is written in a ...

In high level language (C)
Assembly language (low level)
9/11

Which of the following is NOT a Unix or Linux variant

DOS
SunOS
RedHat
Debian
Ubuntu
10/11

What is a Unix shell?

A game
A command-line interpreter
A sound card or video card driver
A text editor
11/11

True or False? A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system

True
False