Across
- 2. the fundamental part of an operating system responsible for providing access to the machine's hardware
- 3. to terminate a connection to a computer or network
- 5. a software program which mimics the performance of one or more hardware devices in order to run software independently of the actual hardware
- 7. an open source version of Unix developed by a volunteer team of programmers around the world
- 10. a set of strict rules for controlling read, write, and execute access to a file or directory
- 11. prepare a device to store data, erasing any existing data
- 12. to enter information related to an account name and its password in order to access a computer resource
Down
- 1. an icon based link between a computer and its operator
- 4. a GUI or CLI software link between the computer and operator; also provides a framework for productivity software such as an office suite, web browser, or programming languages
- 6. a file which does not appear by default in a directory listing; normally for security reasons or to spare confusion in end users
- 8. a software toolkit for UNIX systems underlying numerous GUI window managers including KDE and Gnome
- 9. concurrent execution of two or more tasks by a processor