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POS 420 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   POS 420 Week 1 UNIX and
Linux Comparison Matrix POS 420 Week 1 DQ 1
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POS 420 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   In your work this week,
you have been introduced to Linux by logging in
to the virtual desktop and working through the
individual assignment. In your own words (not a
rehash of the text or internet sources), what is
a "shell?" Why are they important in an UNIX or
Linux environment? Describe at least two elements
of the shell that make it important in the Linux
and UNIX environments. Your answer should be at
least 250 of your own words.
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POS 420 Week 1 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   In the article, Should
You Adopt Open Source Software? by Ven, Verelst,
and Mannaert, you read about some of the pros and
cons of adopting open source software in an IT
environment. In your own words, describe why you
would or would not adopt open source software
should you have the opportunity. Provide at least
one concrete example that supports your opinion.
Your answer should be at least 250 of your own
words
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POS 420 Week 1 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Check out the website
http//lwn.net/Distributions/. Youll note that
there are many, many versions of UNIX and Linux
that you could implement for your home or work
use. Why do you believe there are so many varied
versions of this operating system? What could be
the advantage to having so many different
versions available? What could be a disadvantage?
Provide an example to support your opinion. Your
answer should be at least 250 of your own words.
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POS 420 Week 1 UNIX and Linux Comparison Matrix
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.pos420study.com   In
dividual UNIX and Linux Comparison
Matrix Resources University of Phoenix Material
UNIX and Linux Comparison Matrix Complete the
UNIX and Linux Comparison Matrix located on
your student website.
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POS 420 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Most of the time, the
words UNIX and Linux are used interchangably.
While this is convention, there are differences
between the two operating systems. What do you
think are three differences between UNIX and
Linux? Describe each and discuss why the
difference may be important to an organization
considering implementing either UNIX or Linux.
Your answer should be at least 250 words.
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POS 420 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Throughout this course,
and through your own research, youll hear how
one of the hallmarks of UNIX is its out of the
box security. Whether this is a fact or not
depends on who and when you ask. You can read an
overview of UNIX Security here
http//www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/
tunix.html. CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness
Team) also has published a checklist that UNIX
administrators can use to monitor and enhance the
security of their UNIX systems at
http//www.auscert.org.au/5816.
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POS 420 Week 2 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   UNIX has been around
since the late 1960s. Given the long history of
the operating system, I would like you to read
the Bell-Labs article on the history of UNIX,
located at In your opinion, what are 3 key
points in the timeline of UNIX development? What
do you think the impact of those points are on
the current status of UNIX? Your answer should be
at least 250 words.
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POS 420 Week 2 Individual File Processing
Commands Worksheet FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Individual File
Processing Commands Worksheet Resource
University of Phoenix Material File Processing
Commands Worksheet Resource University of
Phoenix Materials Linux Directory Log Complete
the Linux Directory Log located on your student
website. Complete the University of Phoenix
Material File Processing Comm
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POS 420 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   You've read that one of
the hallmarks of the UNIX operating system is the
ability to modify the source code of the
operating system (this holds true for Linux as
well). What are two advantages to being able to
modify the source code of the operating system?
What are two disadvantages of being able to
modify the source code of UNIX? Give an example
of each.  
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POS 420 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   For use in the weekly
individual assignments, and to get a feel for
what the UNIX or Linux of today looks like, we
have been using Red Hat Linux 5. By this time,
you may be considering investigating other
versions of Linux. For this DQ, I'd like you to
take a "Linux Distribution Chooser" test. It is 6
questions long. The chooser is here
http//desktoplinuxathome.com/distro.html Share
with us the answers you chose for the questions,
and the resulting top 4 distributions. Are any of
your results ones that you are familiar with?
Were you surprised at the results?
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POS 420 Week 3 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   One of the biggest
"complaints" people have of Linux is that there
are few commercial applications available to
compete with what is available in their current
operating system. Pick two application categories
(such as Email, Word Processing, Spreadsheet,
Money Management, Graphics, Music, Project
Management) and locate an open source alternative
for each. Give an overview of each product (brief
- but at least a paragraph), then give several
(say 3) reasons why the open source product meets
many (not necessarily all) of the same needs as
the equivalent traditional popular
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POS 420 Week 3 Individual Linux Script
Worksheet FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Individual Assignment
Copy the following shell that completes the
following !/bin/bash echo Select a country from
the follow-ing list
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POS 420 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Visit the UNIX family
tree at     What are three things that interest
or surprise you about the tree? For each of your
items, describe what is interesting or
surprising. You are welcome to name more than
three! Your answer should be at least 200 words.
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POS 420 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   One of the largest
(literally) uses of UNIX and Linux are for
powering the world's supercomputers.
Supercomputers are used mainly to simulate and
perform large mathematical calculations. My
favorite is the Earth Simulator in Japan - I love
the idea of simulating Earth's conditions. It
used to be in the top 5, and has now fallen to
68th in power and capability.  
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POS 420 Week 4 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   After three weeks of
working on the Red Hat system, you have now had a
pretty good opportunity to use a command line
interface (CLI). Compare and contrast using the
command line versus a graphical user interface
(GUI) for system administration functions. What
are at least two advantages and disadvantages of
each? Your answer should be at least 300 words.
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POS 420 Week 4 Individual Systems Administration
Scripting Log FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Individual Assignment
Complete the Linux command skills worksheet that
is provided in the week 4 Materials Posting
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POS 420 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Attached to this DQ you
will find a somewhat dated, but still useful,
lecture I used to use in class which focuses on
viruses and antivirus for UNIX/Linux operating
systems. Each of the antivirus programs mentioned
in the lecture is commercial - there is no
mention of open source antivirus options. Why do
you think this is? In at least 250 words, give
three reasons (and support them) why open source
antivirus technology has been slow to develop.
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POS 420 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   In chapter 16 of our
"Beginning UNIX" text, you read about networking
protocols available in UNIX, and how those
protocols are used to power the internet. In your
own opinion, what are some of the reasons why
UNIX Internet commands have remained mostly the
same since the advent of the Internet? Your
answer should be well supported and at least 250
words.
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POS 420 Week 5 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.pos420study.com   Discuss three things that
you will take away from this course. You are free
to discuss more, but you must have at least
three. For each of your three things, describe
why you felt it was important and how you will
use it as you continue in your schooling or at
work. Additionally, include in your summary the
discussion question and assignment activity (or
activities) you enjoyed most. Your summary
should be at least 300 of your own words.
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POS 420 Week 5 Leaning Team Final Paper and
Presentation Windows vs Linux FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.pos420study.com   Finalize and submit
a 10-12 page paper. Prepare and submit a
PowerPoint presentation
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