Q 01/05

In which 1990s blockbuster does a child recognise a Unix system and steer a real three-dimensional file browser?

A) GoldenEye

B) Jurassic Park

C) Independence Day

D) Sneakers

Answer · why

B) Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park put genuine software on screen: fsn, a 3D file navigator from Silicon Graphics, running on one of the company's own Unix workstations.

Q 02/05

Which software company licensed Unix in the late 1970s and sold its own version under the name Xenix?

A) Oracle

B) Honeywell

C) Microsoft

D) Novell

Answer · why

C) Microsoft

Microsoft published Xenix from 1980, years before Windows existed, and by the late 1980s it was probably the most commonly installed Unix of all.

Q 03/05

Which desktop operating system first won official UNIX certification with a release in 2007?

A) macOS

B) Windows

C) ChromeOS

D) openSUSE

Answer · why

A) macOS

macOS earned its UNIX 03 registration from The Open Group, the industry consortium that has held the Unix trademark since the 1990s.

Q 04/05

Which free software project, launched by Richard Stallman in 1983, has a recursive name declaring that it is not Unix?

A) BSD

B) Mach

C) Minix

D) GNU

Answer · why

D) GNU

GNU was designed to work like Unix while containing none of its code, so that anyone could copy, study and change the whole system freely.

Q 05/05

Which Unix-like kernel did a University of Helsinki student release in 1991 after taking a course on Unix?

A) Minix

B) Linux

C) Hurd

D) Xinu

Answer · why

B) Linux

Linux was first released on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvalds, and a modified version of the same kernel now sits inside every Android phone.