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  2. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

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    The last string is the command that started the process. The state of a process can be changed using various commands. The fg command brings a process to the foreground, while bg sets a stopped process running in the background. bg and fg can take a job id as their first argument, to specify the process to act on.

  3. APT (software) - Wikipedia

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    APT is a collection of tools distributed in a package named apt. A significant part of APT is defined in a C++ library of functions; APT also includes command-line programs for dealing with packages, which use the library. Three such programs are apt, apt-get and apt-cache. They are commonly used in examples because they are simple and ubiquitous.

  4. Wayland (protocol) - Wikipedia

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    wayland.freedesktop.org. Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. [9] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.

  5. yum (software) - Wikipedia

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    yum (software) The Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM) is a free and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager. [4] Though YUM has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to YUM functionality.

  6. List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    Debian family tree. Debian (a portmanteau of the names "Deb" and "Ian") Linux is a distribution that emphasizes free software.It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format [2] and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic).

  7. Direct Rendering Manager - Wikipedia

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    Website. dri.freedesktop.org /wiki /DRM. The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations such as configuring the mode setting of the display.

  8. Comparison of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    Technical. [] The table below shows the default file system, but many Linux distributions support some or all of ext2, ext3, ext4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, JFS, XFS, GFS2, OCFS2, and NILFS. It is possible to install Linux onto most of these file systems. The ext file systems, namely ext2, ext3, and ext4 are based on the original Linux file system.

  9. Symbolic link - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic link. In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto. [1] Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support also exists in Windows 7 and ...