May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 46m
English
By Badari Pulavarti
Now that you've made important decisions about how to install Linux on your system, you need to learn more about the Linux kernel to make important tuning decisions. We'll discuss how Linux evolved and then delve into its architecture. We'll include information on how the kernel is organized, what its responsibilities are, and how memory management is handled. We'll discuss process management and interprocess communication, followed by an overview of the Linux Symmetrical Multiprocessing Model. Finally, we'll examine the Linux file systems.
Linux is an operating system for personal computers developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Initially, Linux supported only the ...