Here are the answers to the Linux/Internet Quiz.

Q1. Torvalds about a certain person X's rant about Open Source Software:

  "I'd rather listen to Isaac Newton than to X. He may have been
  dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks
  up the room less."

Simple, who is this X Torvalds is talking about?

Craig Mundie of Microsoft.

Q2. Who in the Linux world doesnt love Tux. Give me the collective noun for a group of penguins.

A Waddle of Penguins or A Raft of Penguins.

Penguins spend quite some time in water. A group of penguins in water is called a "Raft of Penguins:" while that on ice is called a "Waddle of Penguins". This was decided at the 4th International Penguin Conference in Chile in September 2000.

Q3. About which application was Linux Journal talking when it said' "You know your program has caught on when people start to use its name as a verb." Further down the same article quotes about this application, "It's no coincidence that the spread of this application has coincided with Linux distributions finally paring down the menu of potentially exploitable services offered by default."

It is Fyodor's Nmap. The article was the Editor's Choice Awards and nmap was adjudged the best Security Tool

Q4. Slightly away from Linux, but still on a very interesting topic. The author of this seminal work ends his acknowledgements with the quote "and AT&T Bell Labs for firing me and making this all possible." While talking about this book, Wired magazine says, "The book National Security Agency never wated to be published" Too many clues already. Which book, which author.

Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Scheneir.

Q5. We all know Linus was studying at the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Helsinki when he started Linux. All you gotta

do

is tell me his mother tongue.

Though Linus grew up in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, his mother tongue is Swedish. Finland, has a significant Swedish speaking population and they call themselves finlandssvensk.

Q6. Vinod Valloppillil, of Microsoft, certainly said quite a few flattering things about Linux. Some of his quotes are given below:

      "Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in
  mission critical applications"

  "I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the
  combination of Linux / Navigator ran at least 30-40% faster when
  rendering simple HTML + graphics."

  "Linux has been deployed in mission critical environments with
  an excellent pool of public testimonials."

The question, dear friends is where did Vinod Valloppillil, go
around making these flattering commments.

In the (in)famous Halloween Documents. In case you havent heard of Halloween documents, now is the time to go to:

www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.html

Q7. Who or what does Linus Torvalds refer to as Linus v2.0?

Patricia Miranda Torvalds, his daughter.

Navin [v2.0]

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

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