SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

A compiler reads the whole source program written in a high-level language, converts it into machine code in one pass of work and reports all the errors it finds together, after which the compiled program runs quickly without the translator being present.

Bharat Operating System Solutions is built on Debian GNU/Linux by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the research organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that is also known for the PARAM series of supercomputers; BOSS comes in versions for schools, for desktops and for servers, with…

The Linux kernel has been distributed under the GPL since its early versions, which is why anyone who ships a modified kernel must also make the modified source code available; this copyleft condition is the licence's defining feature.

Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project in 1983 to build a complete operating system made only of free software, and in 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation to support it; he also wrote the GNU General Public License, which carries the copyleft condition that a modified version must be…

Linus Torvalds, then a student in Finland, wrote the Linux kernel in 1991 and released it under the GNU General Public License, which is why Linux is the standard example of open source software in question papers.

Shareware follows the try before you buy model: the publisher lets anyone download and use the program for a trial period, or in a version with some features locked, and asks for payment or registration if the user wants to go on.

Freeware costs the user nothing, but the licence allows only use: the source code stays with the owner, so the program cannot be studied, modified or redistributed in a changed form.

A defragmenter is a classic utility: it rearranges the scattered pieces of files on a disk so that the drive can read them in fewer movements, which is housekeeping work rather than work the user set out to do.

System software manages the machine itself and gives other programs a place to work: it includes the operating system, device drivers, the language translators and the utility programs.

Amrita Pritam's Punjabi novel Pinjar, meaning the skeleton, tells the story of Puro, a woman abducted on the eve of Partition, and was filmed in 2003 under the same name; Pritam also wrote the famous Partition poem addressed to Waris Shah and received the Jnanpith Award.

Nastanirh, meaning the broken nest, is Tagore's novella about a lonely wife in a Calcutta household, and Satyajit Ray filmed it in 1964 as Charulata, a film Ray himself named as the one he would change least.

Mario Puzo published The Godfather in 1969, and Francis Ford Coppola filmed it in 1972; Puzo also worked on the screenplay, for which he shared an Academy Award.

Umrao Jaan Ada, published in 1899, is counted among the first novels in Urdu and tells the story of a courtesan of Lucknow; Muzaffar Ali filmed it in 1981 with Rekha in the title role.

Omkara, released in 2006 and set in the politics of western Uttar Pradesh, follows the plot of Othello, with the handkerchief of the play becoming a waistband in the film.

Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, published in 2004, was Chetan Bhagat's first novel and supplied the story of three engineering students that became 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani in 2009.

Q & A was written by Vikas Swarup, a diplomat, and was adapted by Danny Boyle as Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; A. R. Rahman won the awards for Best Original Score and, with Gulzar, for Best Original Song, and Resul Pookutty won for sound…

Premchand's Hindi short story Shatranj Ke Khilari, about two noblemen of Awadh absorbed in chess while their kingdom is annexed, was filmed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, the director's only Hindi feature; Ray also made Sadgati from another Premchand story.

His novel Pather Panchali gave Satyajit Ray the material for his first film, released in 1955, and for Aparajito, the two with Apur Sansar forming the Apu Trilogy.

R. K. Narayan's novel The Guide, published in 1958 and set in his imagined town of Malgudi, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed as Guide in 1965 with Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman.

Article 18 abolishes titles: the State may not confer any title that is not a military or academic distinction, and a citizen may not accept a title from a foreign state.