DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Sc. 5 Years Integrated DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2018.
OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. What are the categories of Open Source Software?
Explain.
2. Write short notes on user and group management.
3. Write short notes on setting up Web Servers.
4. How do you setting up a firewall? Discuss.
5. Briefly explain about C preprocessor.
6. What is GNU linker? Explain.
7. Write about Foss and its significance.
8. Write short notes on Python programming.
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Write short notes on following:
PAM authentication
Common System configuration files and log files.
10. Explain about the various methods for connecting to the
internet.
11. Explain about the following:
Setting up file services
Setting up printer services.
12. Explain about Source Code versioning and management
tools.
13. How to manage source code revisions, patch and diff
using CVS? Explain.
14. Explain about common programming practices and
guidelines for GNU/linux and FOSS.
15. Explain about the basics of the X-Windows Server
Architecture.
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