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Francesca Walton
Francesca Walton
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Posted by Francesca Walton
Francesca Walton
520 Points

I'm new to ICT and have no idea what Energia or Linux are - how do I answer these questions?!

I'm new to ICT and have no idea what Energia or Linux are, for example - how do know whether they are operating or application software?

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Luc de Brouwer
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Luc de Brouwer
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Luc de Brouwer
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Luc de Brouwer
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Hi Francesca,

What they mean is whether ' Linux ' is software that is an operating system, like Windows or that ' Linux ' is software that runs on an operating system. Called application software.