Linux quiz

[engless]

Just launched a series of quizzes about Linux and for Linux users:

can post URL after another 15 posts - engless linux quiz

1. Starters (for beginners)
2. History
3. From the Shell (bash etc)

The questions are selected at random. From the question page you can see the total number of questions and the question number selected (and your score). There is no end.
There may or may not be also images with each question.

More Linux questions and quizzes to follow.

ps. thank you PHP

[jayd512]

Welcome to LinuxForums!

I didn't really go to deep into it... only about 10 questions. But you may want to touch up on a few details on it. For example, I was asked "As of 2009, what is the bast app to open MS Word style docs?"
I chose Abiword since it's best for ME.
Also, it gave me a choice of 4 browsers and asked which one is NOT text-only. I chose Dillo... and was wrong.

I like the premise of the quiz, but before you really try to launch it, there are a few tweaks that are needed.

[engless]

I like Abiword, it's light (and works just fine for writing in kanji) but it just can't compete in filters with open office. As for Dillo... the answer is Galeon. I'll be doing a lot of tweaking (and updating like tonight).

[jayd512]

As for Dillo... the answer is Galeon.

Sounds like you're telling me that the Dillo browser is text-only.

[engless]

er.. oops... fixed.

[engless]

There's a new quiz about the GIMP, starting with 'easy' questions I'll add harder ones later.

[elija]

Is the Linux quiz meant to ask the same question several times?

[engless]

Can be. The questions are selected at random. So with 40 different questions, do between 30 and 50. Later I take the number of questions to over a hundred (or hundreds), with levels (like for Swedish words).

[engless]

37 out of 40 is not a bad score, but Starters is meant to be easy.

[elija]

Can be. The questions are selected at random. So with 40 different questions, do between 30 and 50. Later I take the number of questions to over a hundred (or hundreds), with levels (like for Swedish words).

Are you open to suggestions?

If so, I would have each test have a set number of questions and pull random questions out of the database.

You can get a random order in MySQL simply by ordering by rand() and if you want to pull the appropriate question out for each request than you can seed the random function with a number - for example a session ID. This will always return the same order for the same number.

If you are not open to suggestions, then please ignore this