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    The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel...
    82 KB (10,157 words) - 23:06, 9 May 2024
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    The Linux kernel is a free and open-source,: 4  monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally written in 1991...
    195 KB (18,417 words) - 12:09, 18 May 2024
  • operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code...
    60 KB (7,111 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2024
  • original Unix kernel, Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language, as well as Kernighan and Plauger's book The Elements of Programming Style...
    48 KB (5,627 words) - 00:36, 25 May 2024
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    Device driver (redirect from Kernel driver)
    drivers as parts of the kernel, separately as loadable modules, or as user-mode drivers (for certain types of devices where kernel interfaces exist,...
    30 KB (2,911 words) - 05:25, 10 May 2024
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    a series of patches to the Linux kernel that adds Rust as a second programming language to C for writing kernel components. The Linux kernel has been...
    6 KB (535 words) - 13:13, 25 October 2023
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    (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September...
    107 KB (9,911 words) - 02:35, 23 May 2024
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    Linus Torvalds (category Linux kernel programmers)
    Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was...
    45 KB (3,722 words) - 15:15, 23 May 2024
  • Accent is an operating system kernel, most notable for being the predecessor to the Mach kernel. Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)...
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    Kernel Patch Protection (KPP), informally known as PatchGuard, is a feature of 64-bit (x64) editions of Microsoft Windows that prevents patching the kernel...
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    software that is always running, called a kernel—but can include other software as well. The two other types of programs that can run on a computer are...
    100 KB (11,772 words) - 23:08, 24 May 2024
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    continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series, DragonFly has diverged significantly from FreeBSD, implementing lightweight kernel threads (LWKT), an in-kernel message...
    35 KB (2,663 words) - 12:59, 11 December 2023
  • Udev (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
    udev (userspace /dev) is a device manager for the Linux kernel. As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev...
    15 KB (1,831 words) - 10:07, 24 May 2024
  • Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (category Organizations of environmentalism skeptics and critics)
    independently implemented the UNIX kernel or something approximating it, namely, Thompson, Coherent, Holt, Comer, and me. All of this was perfectly legal and...
    11 KB (1,087 words) - 03:37, 31 December 2023
  • Sphinx. Talk at LCA2016: What I've learned as the kernel docs maintainer on YouTube Talk at LCA2017: Kernel documentation: what we have and where it's going...
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    with an original variation of C (named HolyC) in place of BASIC, and included an original flight simulator, compiler, and kernel. First released in 2005...
    15 KB (1,428 words) - 20:50, 25 May 2024
  • Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code is a 2004 report by Kenneth Brown. The report suggests that the Linux kernel may have been created or distributed...
    13 KB (1,437 words) - 19:16, 4 February 2024
  • cokernel is called the corank of f. Cokernels are dual to the kernels of category theory, hence the name: the kernel is a subobject of the domain (it maps to...
    8 KB (1,077 words) - 07:39, 5 March 2024
  • it reads the current state of the md raid arrays, saves that state, and then waits for the kernel to tell it something interesting has happened. It...
    12 KB (1,442 words) - 07:35, 17 May 2024
  • preemptive. Nonpreemptive kernels require that each task do something to explicitly give up control of the CPU. A preemptive kernel is used when system responsiveness...
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