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· Complete the Linux command skills worksheet that is provided in the week 4 Materials Posting

  Visit the UNIX family tree at:  http://www.levenez.com/unix/ What are three things that interest or surprise you about the tree? For each of your items, describe what is interesting or surprising. You are welcome to name more than three! Your answer should be at least 200 words. 

  One of the largest (literally) uses of UNIX and Linux are for powering the world’s supercomputers. Supercomputers are used mainly to simulate and perform large mathematical calculations. My favorite is the Earth Simulator in Japan – I love the idea of simulating Earth’s conditions. It used to be in the top 5, and has […]

After three weeks of working on the Red Hat system, you have now had a pretty good opportunity to use a command line interface (CLI). Compare and contrast using the command line versus a graphical user interface (GUI) for system administration functions. What are at least two advantages and disadvantages of each? Your answer should be at […]

One of the biggest “complaints” people have of Linux is that there are few commercial applications available to compete with what is available in their current operating system. Pick two application categories (such as: Email, Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Money Management, Graphics, Music, Project Management) and locate an open source alternative for each. Give an overview of […]

· Copy the following shell that completes the following: #!/bin/bash echo Select a country from the follow-ing list: echo America, Italy, France, Germany read country case $country in [Aa]merica ) echo Ford; echo Per-haps;; [Ii]taly ) echo Ferarri;echo no;; [Ff]rance ) echo Peugeot ;echo no way;; [Gg]ermany ) echo Porsche ;echo yes;; esac · Run […]

  For use in the weekly individual assignments, and to get a feel for what the UNIX or Linux of today looks like, we have been using Red Hat Linux 5. By this time, you may be considering investigating other versions of Linux. For this DQ, I’d like you to take a “Linux Distribution Chooser” […]

UNIX has been around since the late 1960s. Given the long history of the operating system, I would like you to read the Bell-Labs article on the history of UNIX, located at: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ In your opinion, what are 3 key points in the timeline of UNIX development? What do you think the impact of those […]

You’ve read that one of the hallmarks of the UNIX operating system is the ability to modify the source code of the operating system (this holds true for Linux as well). What are two advantages to being able to modify the source code of the operating system? What are two disadvantages of being able to modify the source […]

Individual File Processing Commands Worksheet Resource: University of Phoenix Material: File Processing Commands Worksheet Resource: University of Phoenix Materials: Linux® Directory Log Complete the Linux® Directory Log located on your student website. Complete the University of Phoenix Material: File Processing Commands Worksheet located on your student website. See the Assignment 2 post in Main forum […]