Appendix AAnswers to Review Questions

Chapter 1: Selecting an Operating System

  1. A, B, D, and E. The kernel manages the memory, CPU, and devices for programs running on a computer system, so options A, B, D, and E are correct. The kernel does not manage features of the GUI desktop environment, so option C is incorrect.
  2. A. The Android OS is used on phones as an embedded Linux system, so option A is correct. The CentOS, Fedora, Mint, and Red Hat Linux distributions are full Linux distributions intended for desktop and server environments, and they are not used in embedded systems, making options B, C, D, and E incorrect.
  3. B. Linux’s GUI is based on the X Window System. Although macOS provides an X implementation, its primary GUI is Apple’s ...

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