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    The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code. The interfaces can be classified as either application programming interface...
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  • structure. Linux portal Linux kernel interfaces Programming Linux Games "A goodbye note from Michael Kerrisk". lwn.net. Retrieved 2013-10-24. "Linux man-pages...
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  • Namespaces are a feature of the Linux kernel that partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set...
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  • Io uring (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
    Computer programming portal Linux portal io_uring is a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations addressing performance...
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    Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...
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    The Linux kernel is a free and open source: 4  Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for...
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    The framebuffer subsystem in the Linux kernel fbdev is used to show graphics on a computer monitor, typically on the system console. It was designed as...
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  • The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions...
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    NetworkManager (category Linux network-related software)
    other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces. NetworkManager...
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  • Netlink (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
    Unix-like operating systems, including its original incarnation as a Linux kernel interface, as well as in the form of a later implementation on FreeBSD. Similarly...
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  • cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O,...
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  • originally Performance Counters for Linux, PCL) is a performance analyzing tool in Linux, available from Linux kernel version 2.6.31 in 2009. Userspace...
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    The Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. A system console is the device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and...
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  • Linux-based operating systems can be used for playing video games. Because fewer games natively support the Linux kernel than Windows, various software...
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  • framework in the Linux kernel, for various parts of the kernel that deal with cryptography, such as IPsec and dm-crypt. It was introduced in kernel version 2...
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  • call interface, which enables multiple virtual Linux kernel-based operating systems (known as guests) to run as an application within a normal Linux system...
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    continue to do so. As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script...
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    real Linux kernel – a managed virtual machine (via Hyper-V) that implements the full Linux kernel. As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries...
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    to load a binary kernel plus initrd from a preferred distribution hosting a precompiled/preconfigured kernel. Ubuntu's kernel linux-3.2.0-17-generic has...
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    Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including...
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  • for a detailed comparison. Linux distributions that have highly modified kernels — for example, real-time computing kernels — should be listed separately...
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    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
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  • Video4Linux (redirect from Video for linux)
    into the 2.1.X development cycle of the Linux kernel. Retroactively being renamed to V4L1, it was dropped in kernel 2.6.38. V4L2 is the second version of...
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  • The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that...
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  • This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated...
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    Arch Linux (/ɑːrtʃ/) is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution. Arch Linux is kept up-to-date by regularly updating the individual pieces...
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  • Linux Security Modules (LSM) is a framework allowing the Linux kernel to support, without bias, a variety of computer security models. LSM is licensed...
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    Evdev (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
    evdev (short for 'event device') is a generic input event interface in the Linux kernel and FreeBSD. It generalizes raw input events from device drivers...
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    microkernel design. Some kernels, such as the Linux kernel, are both monolithic and modular, since they can insert and remove loadable kernel modules at runtime...
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