{"id":244,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:40","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-79","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=244","title":{"rendered":"The Operating System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>The Operating System<\/title>\n<p>\nIn this section, we are going to go into some detail about what makes a Linux\n<glossary>operating system<\/glossary>. I am not talking about the &#8220;product&#8221; Linux or any of\nthe bundled distributions such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suse.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SuSE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RedHat<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandrakelinux.com\/\">Mandrake<\/a>. Here, I am talking strictly\nabout the software that manages and controls your computer. The collection of functions that do all\nthe work are collectively called the &#8220;<glossary>kernel<\/glossary>&#8220;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause an <glossary>operating system<\/glossary>\nis of little use without hardware and other software, we are going\nto discuss how the <glossary>operating system<\/glossary>\ninteracts with other parts of the various Linux distributions. I\nwill also talk about what goes into making the <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>,\nwhat components it is made of, and what\nyou can do to influence the creation of a new <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMuch of this information is far beyond\nwhat many system administrators are required to have for their jobs. So why go over it? Because\nwhat is <i>required<\/i> and what the <glossary>administrator<\/glossary>\n<b>should<\/b> know are two different things. Many calls I received\nwhile in tech support and many questions posted to newsgroups could have been avoided had the\nadministrator understood the meaning of a message on the system console or the effects of making\nchanges. By going over the details of how the <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>\nbehaves, I hope to put you in a better position\nto understand what is happening.\n<p>\nThe contents of this discussion is based primarily on two sources. The first is my book\n<book isbn=0138423784>Linux User&#8217;s Resource<\/book>. The second is David Rusling&#8217;s\n&#8220;The Linux Kernel&#8221;. In our seperate documents David and I covered different topics and in different\nlevels of detail, so you didn&#8217;t get the full story by reading either one by itself.\nRather than rewriting everything from scratch, David has graciously given me permission to\ninclude his material with mine. Perhaps &#8220;merge&#8221; is a better term than &#8220;include&#8221;, because\nin spite of much commonality between the two documents, one often included information that the\nother did not include.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Operating System In this section, we are going to go into some detail about what makes a Linux operating system. I am not talking about the &#8220;product&#8221; Linux or any of the bundled distributions such as SuSE, RedHat, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}