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Which is a package manager?

1. Which is a package manager?
2. Which combination of commands displays the first 10 lines of `error.log` and then the last 10?
3. How do you run a command in the background and return to the prompt?
4. A Linux "distribution" differs from the kernel in that:
5. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard places:
6. Which command searches files for a text pattern?
7. What is the difference between `df` and `du`?
8. Which command lists the running processes?
9. `kill -9 1234` does what?
10. What is `cron` used for?
11. Linux file permissions are commonly represented as three triples (e.g. `rwxr-xr--`). What do the triples correspond to?
12. `systemd` is most commonly used in modern Linux distributions to:

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