Linux OS (GATE)

This directory in Linux file system contains system commands and programs that are needed during bootup.

This argument selects all processes associated with a specific terminal.

This is the best-known distribution of Linux that has a design that has made Linux a widely used desktop operating system.

IFS stands for Internal Field Separator. This is the system variable in shell that is used for splitting word after expansion and for splitting lines into words and used as a built-in variable by read command.

This type of shell is an open source Unix shell that is embedded within the Scheme programming language.

This mail client in Linux is a Mozilla group stand-alone mail client and a newsreader.

This command is used in shell programming to display advanced file attributes.

This is the shortcut that is used in shell programming to obtain the value of the PWD variable which includes the current working directory. It gives the same output as $(PWD).

This is a popular tool in Unix and is used for installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying and updating computer software packages.

This is a spreadsheet program that is a part of the GNOME Free software desktop project.

This directory in Linux file system is a mount point for temporary file systems that helps while troubleshooting from CD-ROM where one may possibly mount the root file system and edit configurations.

This command creates a list of module dependencies and also generates various map files in modules.dep directory.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is the commonly used application in Linux that is used to view and carry out image manipulation tasks.

This action field makes the OS start the process once when the runlevel is started, however, not waiting for the termination of the process before executing additional programs.

This script is used in xdm-config file to reset the X window system after a session ends.