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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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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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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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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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 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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Cgroups (redirect from Kernel memory control groups)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Kernel mode setting)
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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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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"Arch Linux". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2019. "git.kernel.org - linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2...
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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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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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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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Linux-based operating systems can be used for playing video games. Because few games natively support the Linux kernel, various software has been made...
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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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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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Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a minimal Linux kernel based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. It was developed by...
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Android (operating system) (redirect from Google Android Linux OS)
Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based...
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that handles Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) computers, a GUI-based method to change a Linux kernel and other core programs. It includes MX...
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