Name: GERSON A.

CAGA Date: 09/27/2021

IT423 - System Administration and Maintenance Course/ Year: BSIT-BA

Personal Challenge

1. What is the codename for Windows Server Specifically 2008?

Codename Preliminary name Final name

Longhorn Server N/A Windows Server 2008

Cougar N/A Windows Small Business Server 2008

Centro N/A Windows Essential. Business Server

Windows 7 N/A Windows 7

2. Windows Defender Beta Version was released on what date?

On November 4, 2005, it was announced that Microsoft AntiSpyware was renamed to Windows
Defender. Windows Defender (Beta 2) was released on February 13, 2006.

3. AGDLP stands for?

The abbreviation AGDLP stands for “Account, Global, Domain Local, Permission” and represents
Microsoft's recommended procedure for implementing role-based access control within Windows
domains.

4. Who conducted a study in 2004 and found that an unprotected and unpatched
Windows XP system with Service Pack 1 lasted only 4 minutes on the Internet before it
was compromised? Windows XP system with Service Pack 1 lasted only 4 minutes on
the Internet before it was compromised?
A study conducted by Kevin Mitnick and marketing communications firm Avantgarde in 2004,
found that an unprotected and unpatched Windows XP system with Service Pack 1 lasted only
four minutes on the Internet before it was compromised, and an unprotected and also
unpatched Windows Server 2003 system was compromised after being connected to the
internet for 8 hours.

6. It is an open-source OS that is intended to run the same software as Windows,

originally designed to simulate Windows NT 4.0.

ReactOS

7.When was the official release of Windows Server 2008?

Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially launched on
27th of that month.

Give atleast 4 emulation softwares

Wine – a free and open source software implementation of the Windows API, allowing one to
run many Windows applications on x86-based platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X. Wine
developers refer to it as a "compatibility layer"; and make use of Windows-style APIs to emulate
the Windows environment.

• CrossOver – A Wine package with licensed fonts. Its developers are regular
contributors to Wine, and focus on Wine running officially supported applications.

• Cedega – Trans Gaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine, designed specifically

for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. A version of Cedega
known as Cider is used by some video game publishers to allow Windows games to
run on Mac OS X. Since Wine was licensed under the LGPL, Cedega has been unable
to port the improvements made to Wine to their proprietary codebase. Cedega ceased
its service in February 2011.

• Darwine – A bundling of Wine to the PowerPC Macs running OS X by running Wine

on top of QEMU. Intel Macs use the same Wine as other *NIX x86 systems.
Laboratory Challenge

What does WINE stand for and its main purpose?

Wine – a free and open source software implementation of the Windows API, allowing
one to run many Windows applications on x86-based platforms, including Linux and
Mac OS X. Wine developers refer to it as a "compatibility layer"; and make use of
Windows-style APIs to emulate the Windows environment.

Research a brief history of the following emulators:

a. REACTOS

Around 1996, a group of free and open-source software developers started a

project called FreeWin95 to implement a clone of Windows 95. The project
stalled in discussions of the design of the system.

While FreeWin95 had started out with high expectations, there still had not been
any builds released to the public by the end of 1997. As a result, the project
members, led by coordinator Jason Filby, joined together to revive the project.
The revived project sought to duplicate the functionality of Windows NT. In
creating the new project, a new name, ReactOS, was chosen. The project began
development in February 1998 by creating the basis for a new NT kernel and
basic drivers. The name ReactOS was coined during an IRC chat. While the
term "OS" stood for operating system, the term "react" referred to the group's
dissatisfaction with – and reaction to – Microsoft's monopolistic position.

In 2002, the ReactOS Foundation was established in Moscow with Maxim

Osowski and Aleksey Bragin as executive officers and Vladimir Bragin, Saveliy
Tretiakov and Alexey Ivanov on the board of directors. In 2015, the foundation
was liquidated.
b. WINE

Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine
project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux. It was inspired
by two Sun Microsystems' products, the Wabi for the Solaris operating system,
and the Public Windows Initiative, which was an attempt to get the Windows API
fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard but rejected due to
pressure from Microsoft in 1996. Wine originally targeted 16-bit applications for
Windows 3.x, but as of 2010 focuses on 32-bit and 64-bit versions which have
 become the standard on newer operating systems. The project originated in
discussions on Usenet in comp.os. linux in June 1993. Alexandre Julliard has
led the project since 1994.

c. CEDEGA

Cedega subscribers dwindled as users expressed a number of complaints due

to lack of updates, fatal problems with supported games and with Wine having
achieved a number of features that were unique to Cedega, giving even better
compatibility in some cases. Users attributed the apparent lack of interest from
TransGaming on Cedega to their focus on Cider, a similar Wine-based API layer
for Mac OS X systems, supported by Electronic Arts to bring their Windows
native games to Mac.

On November 13, 2007's Development Status report, TransGaming explained

that a number of modifications have been made to Cedega’s code to add Wine's
implementation of the MSI installation system and to be able to incorporate more
of Wine’s codebase. It was never confirmed if those changes were in
conformance with Wine's LGPL license.

Also, on the November 13, 2007 report, it was announced that all of the work
done on Cider would be merged back into Cedega (since both share the same
code). Among the new features are “new copy protection, 2.0 shader updates, a
head start on shader model 3.0, performance upgrades, a self-updating user
interface” and others. On September 23, 2008, Cedega officially presented the
new version 6.1.

d. DARWINE

In 2002, part of the OpenDarwin team created Darwine to support compiling of

Win32 source into Mach-O/PowerPC binaries for Macintosh computers. The
group succeeded in porting Wine from ELF to Mach-0 Mach-O/PowerPC. The
developers then worked to integrate the processor-emulator QEMU with a Mac
OS-compatible version of Wine in order to run Win32 EXEs on Mac OS X for
PowerPC.

Darwine's focus shifted due to the Mac transition to Intel processors. Darwine
applied their patches to Wine for a separate x86 Macintosh version of Darwine.
x86 Macintosh computers could run Windows programs (if compatible with
Wine) natively — resulting in speeds comparable to Mac specific programs. The
Darwine project stopped active development on the PowerPC version of
Darwine in late 2006, but was later revived and new builds — without code
changes — were created, starting in mid-2008 by other developers. Version 1.0
 was released on June 17, 2008, the same day as version 1.0 of Wine.

After these efforts were made to move patches from x86 upstream into the main
version of Wine. On May 29, 2009, kronenberg.org stated that "As some might
have read on Wine-Devel, Darwine is dead for good. The OS X port of Wine
formerly known as Darwine is now Wine." It was also stated that in future
kronenberg builds Darwine's WineHelper app would be replaced by a new one
called WineBottler.

CROSSOVER

CrossOver is developed by CodeWeavers and based on Wine, an open-source

Windows compatibility layer. CodeWeavers modifies the Wine source code, applies
compatibility patches, adds configuration tools that are more user-friendly, automated
installation scripts, and provides technical support. All changes made to the Wine source code
are covered by the LGPL and publicly available. CodeWeavers maintains an online database
listing how well various Windows applications perform under CrossOver.