Here are the answers to the Linux/Internet Quiz. > Q1. Torvalds about a certain person X's rant about Open Source Software: > > "I'd rather listen to Isaac Newton than to X. He may have been > dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks > up the room less." > > Simple, who is this X Torvalds is talking about?
Craig Mundie of Microsoft. > Q2. Who in the Linux world doesnt love Tux. Give me the collective noun > for a group of penguins. A Waddle of Penguins or A Raft of Penguins. Penguins spend quite some time in water. A group of penguins in water is called a "Raft of Penguins:" while that on ice is called a "Waddle of Penguins". This was decided at the 4th International Penguin Conference in Chile in September 2000. > Q3. About which application was Linux Journal talking when it said' "You > know your program has caught on when people start to use its name as a > verb." Further down the same article quotes about this application, > "It's no coincidence that the spread of this application has coincided > with Linux distributions finally paring down the menu of potentially > exploitable services offered by default." It is Fyodor's Nmap. The article was the Editor's Choice Awards and nmap was adjudged the best Security Tool > Q4. Slightly away from Linux, but still on a very interesting topic. The > author of this seminal work ends his acknowledgements with the quote > "and AT&T Bell Labs for firing me and making this all possible." While > talking about this book, Wired magazine says, "The book National > Security Agency never wated to be published" Too many clues already. > Which book, which author. Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Scheneir. > Q5. We all know Linus was studying at the Department of Computer > Sciences, University of Helsinki when he started Linux. All you gotta do > is tell me his mother tongue. Though Linus grew up in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, his mother tongue is Swedish. Finland, has a significant Swedish speaking population and they call themselves finlandssvensk. > Q6. Vinod Valloppillil, of Microsoft, certainly said quite a few > flattering things about Linux. Some of his quotes are given below: > > "Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in > mission critical applications" > > "I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the > combination of Linux / Navigator ran at least 30-40% faster when > rendering simple HTML + graphics." > > "Linux has been deployed in mission critical environments with > an excellent pool of public testimonials." > > The question, dear friends is where did Vinod Valloppillil, go > around making these flattering commments. In the (in)famous Halloween Documents. In case you havent heard of Halloween documents, now is the time to go to: www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.html > Q7. Who or what does Linus Torvalds refer to as Linus v2.0? Patricia Miranda Torvalds, his daughter. Navin [v2.0] "Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to." _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
