Research three different distributions of linux on the internet. record where you went to obtain your information. compare and contrast the different distributions with regard to their strengths and the packages available for each. after you finish, locate and visit two linux newsgroups. how did you locate them and where did you obtain the information? what are the topics specific to each? find two questions per newsgroup posted by a user in need of a solution to a problem, and follow the thread of responses suggested by others to solve that problem.

Many prestigious universities have a system called a “legacy preference system” which is used to decide which applicants should be accepted to the university. if an applicant’s parent is an alumnus of the university, the applicant will be admitted with lower gpa and sat scores than if the parent is not an alumnus. (there is currently a lot of discussion about the fairness of this system, but universities get a lot of money from their alumni so they are unwilling to change ) your assignment for mp2 is to implement a computerized system like this for a very small prestigious university. the university has two schools, liberal arts and music, each with their own criteria for accepting students. your program must read in certain information about an applicant and print a message saying whether the applicant should be accepted or not.