Operating systems notes
Case Study: Linux & Android
Every concept in this course, wired together inside the one kernel your career actually runs on. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 18 minutes in all.
- Chapter 34 of 37
- About 18 minutes
- 9 sections
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In this chapter
- Why Linux, the OS the world actually runs on
- A short history, from Unix to a billion devices
- Processes & threads, the unified task model
- Scheduling: CFS, EEVDF, and the classes above them
- Memory management, virtual memory, the page cache & the OOM killer
- The file system stack: VFS and “everything is a file”
- Security, from Unix permissions to namespaces & seccomp
- Android, a whole platform on a Linux kernel
- Why engineers care, the substrate under everything you ship
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