There is some overlap between the topics listed here and those I mentioned for the LPI 101 and 102 exams, due to the fact that they are competing certifications on the same topics. Theory of Operation Open Source software includes the source code in its distribution and encourages study and modification. Thanks to many developers having access to the source code and working through collaboration, it is generally possible to escalate development and evolution faster than if one company owned and marketed the software in a proprietary manner. Software protection under GPL is known as copyleft. The kernel serves as the operating system and is configured to reflect each system s environment and peripherals.
Daemons run in the background and provide services to the system.
The maximum number of primary partitions allowed on a hard disk is four. Base System Linux distributions are specified in majorversion.minorversion format, while the kernel format is majorversion.microversion.patch. Startup is started by LILO, which passes control to the kernel. Holds the users home directories. The home directory for the root user.