Linux distribution

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Good Essays

    Linux: The Kernel And Shell Josh Harkey AIU Online Abstract This manual has been written to explore the many distributions of Linux. It will define some of the components of the OS as they relate to the shell and kernel. It will also go over some of the more popular distributions of Linux and the shells. Finally, it will give a brief overview of some useful commands that can be used in the bash shell. Linux: The Kernel and Shell It is important to know some the inner workings of an operating

    • 1185 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1. What are Linux distros? Mention the names of a few distros. Are all of the distros open source and free? • Linux distros i.e. Linux distributions, is a merging of all the different parts and programs that is created by different organizations. • Some of the Linux distros are Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, Arch Linux. • Not all of the distros are open source and free. 2. What is the significance of file extensions (.txt, .pdf, .docx, .jpeg, etc) in Windows and Linux? For example

    • 1039 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    1. What Is Linux? Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The current full-featured version is 2.4 (released January 2001) and development

    • 5780 Words
    • 24 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    1. Goal After two labs focusing purely on the Linux side of systems administration and network services, this third lab puts Windows into the spotlight and how it deals with configuring services as compared to the previous RHEL-based configurations. Many of the same tasks which were completed using a RHEL 7 virtual machine in lab 2, such as setting up DHCP and DNS, are repeated in this lab on a Windows 2012 Datacenter virtual machine. This is done not only to show the differences in service administration

    • 1533 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Project: Operating System Proposal Objectives Back to Top Your company is currently investigating the use of Linux. Your manager has asked you to research the feasibility of using Linux in both the server and workstation environments (from the operating system point of view). Your manager would like to see an 8- to 10-page paper that 1. compares and contrasts Linux server and Linux workstation OS

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Project: Operating System Proposal Objectives Back to Top Your company is currently investigating the use of Linux. Your manager has asked you to research the feasibility of using Linux in both the server and workstation environments (from the operating system point of view). Your manager would like to see an 8- to 10-page paper that 1. compares and contrasts Linux server and Linux workstation OS

    • 643 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Linux is everywhere. From your mobile phone to the laptop, desktop, servers, super computers, even the important role. There is a special need to know about. Keeping in mind the requirements and requests for a lot of the decision will discuss the details of Linux. What Computer Operating System, or OS Linux is a computer Operating System with the details before you need to have a basic knowledge. We have a post before about computer operating system, if you can read the post. Top 9 Operating Systems

    • 1814 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I propose that our company consider implementing Linux for our servers and workstations. There are many excellent reasons to employ Linux as the operating system of choice for our company: Linux is ‘tried and true’; is used by many large companies, such as Google©, Amazon©, Facebook©, and many of the cloud service providers; is less expensive; more reliable and stable; has extensive free community support; uses memory and CPU resources more efficiently; is reasonably easy and quick to install;

    • 2136 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    The new research and development group, LSDG, of HACKD, LLC, will be migrating all Windows XP machines to a Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux distribution to optimize performance and user capability. As described perfectly by Karen Schwartz there are many reasons to switch “The reasons are compelling: greater stability and reliability, lower cost, access to application source code, greater security, and conformity with open standards” (Schwartz, 2004). The LSDG group will access and share resources with

    • 1311 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Linux based systems are modular Unix-like OSs build a large part of its component from 1970s and 1980s UNIX principles. They apply a monolithic kernel, commonly identified as the Linux kernel to execute process control, access to peripherals, file system management and networking tasks. Lonix OS drivers are either directly integrated with the kernel or come in as additional modules created while the system is awake. Independent developments with kernel interface improve the functionality and performance

    • 1396 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
Previous
Page12345678950