DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Sc. Years Integrated) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2017.
OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. What are the advantages of open source software?
Explain.
2. Describe any four basic shell commands.
3. Write short notes on the OS bookup process.
4. Briefly explain about web servers.
5. What is GNU Compiler? Explain.
6. Explain about C preprocessor directives.
7. What do you mean by object archiver? Explain.
8. What is graphical debuggers? Explain.
SECTION B — 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Explain about configuring disk partitions, file systems
and install a GNU/Linux distribution.
10. Explain the basics of TCP/IP networking and routing.
Sub. Code
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DE-750
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11. Write short notes on following
Setting up email servers
Setting up proxy services.
12. Explain how do you configure X Window system
configuration and utilities.
13. Explain about source code versioning and management
tools.
14. Explain about statically linked binaries and
libraries.
Explain about dynamically linked libraries.
15. Explain about programming GUI applications with
localization support.