Linux

RPM is the extraction / installation component. YUM is the downloader. If RPM is run to install a package without its dependencies already installed, it will fail. YUM's job is to download all necessary dependencies.

Linux is just the kernel.

If you combine utilities that were made as a result of the GNU project with the linux kernel, you get GNU Linux, which is considered as a complete operating system

More or less.

There are many desktop environments in linux. Most prominent would be:

KDE

Trinity - KDE fork (response to KDE 4.0 dissatisfaction)

Gnome

MATE - Gnome fork (response to Gnome 3.0 dissatisfaction)

Cinnamon - Gnome fork (response to Gnome 3.0 dissatisfaction)

Unity - Ubuntu's desktop environment (built on top of Gnome 3.0)

XFCE

LXDE

There are many more. Also, there are window managers that have comparable functionality (ex. Enlightenment)

Almost all USB Flash drives conform to the USB Mass Storage specification, which is has been supported in the Linux kernel since the 2.4 series. You would really have to go out of your way to find one that doesn't work in Linux. Any drive from Sandisk, Kingston, Lexar, or Samsung, as well as most el cheapo drives you can buy on eBay will work.

Pine is a third-party software package that does not come with Unix or Linux; it has to be installed. It was written for a beginner in mind so that they didn't have to know a lot about the Unix environment when using mail.

Mailx is a standard Unix mail client that is typically supplied with a Unix install. It is somewhat easy to use but requires the user to know how to use an editor such as 'vi' and to use somewhat arcane means of answering mail.

Strictly speaking, it isn't a matter of what Linux can do and what others cannot; most of the software available for Linux was written for older ones or has been ported. What is special about Linux is its low cost and its high performance compared to other common alternatives.

Back up the files to another disk change the os and restore the files.

The official 'mascot' of Linux is Tux, the penguin.

You can find complete information herehttp://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Tux_the_Linux_Penguin

Two ways:

If you want those fonts to be globally visible to all users on the system, you, with root permissions, place them in /usr/share/fonts/truetype (may vary depending on your distribution). It may take X some time to notice the fonts there. If not, you can force refresh the cache with something like "fc-cache -fv".

Of course if this is a system where you are the only user, it's best just to shove them into ~/.fonts instead, as you won't need root permissions to do that. That and you might get the fonts discovered a bit quicker by simpy restarting the application you want to use the font in. If you want your entire desktop to use it, you might need to log out and back in.

By the way: There is no need to worry about whether "Windows" TTFs work in Linux, a TTF is a TTF is a TTF. They're not binaries, they have no architecture/platform dependency to their content, as all their content is is vector graphics and some other data.

Linux can support a variety of filesystems. Many users choose to use EXT filesystems (ext2,ext3,ext4) but you can also use FAT (windows-compatible) and lesser known filesystems (like ReiserFS)

Each file and directory can be marked read-only, writable, and executable. Each file / directory will contain three sets of permissions that can be marked as such, namely the owner, other users in the owners group, and users not in the group.

Yes, linux has many drivers for many cd/dvd players.

It's free.

Use the 'ifconfig' command on your adaptor, or just 'ifconfig -a'

To verify the integrity of the install media, to ensure all is as it should be, one has the option to compare md5sum hashes.

The Linux administrator is called the "root" user.

A string of characters followed by 0-9

fsck (means "file system check").

To build a kernel with a c compiler, you should have a maximum of 512GB, all what is above 512GB, are used for a linux kernel, because of the stack rate.

Linux was created in Finland.

It depends on what you have set-up for the computer to boot-up. A normal setting is for it to boot from the hardrive or if you are on Linux the setting normally is;

BOOT-UP LINUX

*-Disk Drive

*-USB Ports(sometimes, but not normally)

*-Hard Drive

*-Floppy Disk

That depends on the hardware, the distribution, and what you are referring to by "first turn on." Most computers do not display anything at all for a brief period of time while the display is initialized. Depending on the system and how long it takes to initialize the hardware, you may also see a BIOS POST screen or a splash screen.

Then, depending on how the bootloader is configured, the system may either load directly into Linux, or present a menu for a choice of operating systems. There are several bootloaders that can boot Linux, with a variety of appearances.

Finally, when Linux itself begins loading, the appearance can vary tremendously, from a splash screen to a framebuffer console to a simple system console to no display at all.

Yes

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