Linux History

Who developed the original UNIX operating system in 1969?

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories
• Richard Stallman
• Linus Torvalds
• Steve Jobs

What project did Richard Stallman work on to create a free software operating system?

• The GNU project
• Linux kernel
• BSD
• MINIX

What important piece of software did the GNU project create?

• The GNU General Public License (GPL)
• The Linux kernel
• The BSD kernel
• The MINIX kernel

What crucial part of an operating system allows hardware to communicate with software?

• The kernel
• The shell
• Processes
• Devices

Which UNIX-like systems that were developed lacked a unified kernel?

• BSD, MINIX, etc
• Linux
• MacOS
• Windows

What famous kernel was Linus Torvalds working on developing in 1991?

• The Linux kernel
• The GNU kernel called Hurd
• The BSD kernel
• The MINIX kernel

What project led to the creation of the GNU GPL free software license?

• The GNU project
• Linux kernel
• BSD
• MINIX

Who started the Linux kernel development?

• Linus Torvalds
• Ken Thompson
• Richard Stallman
• Dennis Ritchie

What was the kernel called that was part of the GNU Project but was never completed?

• The GNU kernel called Hurd
• Linux kernel
• BSD kernel
• MINIX kernel

According to the passage, who developed the original UNIX operating system?

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories
• Richard Stallman
• Linus Torvalds
• Steve Jobs