Tag: science & technology

Questions Related to science & technology

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Navicat

  2. phpMyAdmin

  3. Catcross

  4. bulkloader

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Navicat is a commercial graphical database management tool that supports multiple databases including MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. phpMyAdmin is web-based and MySQL-specific. The other options are not database management tools.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. "Security through obscurity"

  2. "Hiding the code is way to security"

  3. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

  4. "Everything should be Free"

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Linus's Law states that 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow' - meaning that with enough people reviewing code, bugs become easy to find and fix. This is a core principle of open-source development, contrasting with security through obscurity.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Multi-Platform

  2. Multi-user

  3. Open Source

  4. All the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Linux is multi-platform (runs on various hardware architectures), multi-user (supports multiple simultaneous users), and open-source (source code is freely available). Since all these characteristics are true, 'All the above' is the correct answer.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Linus Torvalds

  2. Andrew S Tanenbaum

  3. Dennis Ritchie

  4. Richard Stallman

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Stallman popularized copyleft as a legal mechanism to protect free software rights. He founded the Free Software Foundation and created the GNU GPL license which uses copyleft to ensure software remains free. Linus Torvalds created Linux, Tanenbaum wrote MINIX, and Ritchie created C.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Proprietary Operating System

  2. Copyright Operating System

  3. Redistributed Operating System

  4. Open Source Operating System

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Linux is an Open Source Operating System where the source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. It is not proprietary (owned by a company), nor is it about copyright or redistribution in the restrictive sense implied by those options.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Google Inc.

  2. Microsoft Corporation

  3. Open Community

  4. Nexus

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Android was developed by Android Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2005. Since then, Android has been owned and maintained by Google as an open-source mobile operating system.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Linus Torvalds

  2. Andrew S Tanenbaum

  3. Dennis Ritchie

  4. Richard Stallman

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1983 to create a complete Unix-like operating system that would be free software. Linus Torvalds later created the Linux kernel, which was combined with GNU tools to form the complete GNU/Linux system.