What is the difference between a UNIX system and a UNIX clone?
What does the term "Linux on Power" refer to?
What is user space? What is kernel space?
What is the interface to kernel functionality for user space programs?
What is the relationship between a user's UID and a username?
List the ways in which files are associated with users.
List the various types of files supported by Linux.
Is the shell part of the operating system?
Why do we have both file protection and file modes?
List the kind of information you would expect to find in a structure holding file metadata.
What is the basic difference between a character and a block device?
What is the subcomponent of the Linux kernel that allows it to be a multiprocess system?
How does a process become the parent of another process?
In this chapter, we introduced two kinds of hierarchical trees: file trees and process trees. What do they have in common? How do they differ?
Is a process ID associated with a user ID?
What is the use of assigning process priorities? Should all users be able to alter the priority values? Why or why not?
Are device drivers used solely for adding hardware support?
What helps make Linux portable across different architectures?
