linux Kernel

[Phill MV]

The kernel, in computer science terms, is the program that essentially runs
your computer. It provides the environment in which your other programs run
in by acting as an intermediary between your software and your hardware. It
allows your programs to write to disk, to access memory, to use other
hardware (be it a graphics card or an ethernet card) and (good kernels at
least) also allow programs to coexist peacefully.

Wikipedia kernel for more info.

Under linux, it's exact location varies from distro to distro. In gentoo it
resides in /boot; in ubuntu I'm not sure; it's usually in a file named
bzImage that, when you turn on your computer, is amongst the first thing to
load into your computer's memory.

You can obtain the linux source code files from www.kernel.org.





On 28/10/06, Cheatah 0#@!^ <cheataah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the real concept of a linux kernel ? What all are the
> constituents if it ?
> Are all the folder which we see in the "/"(root folder) the
> constituents of a kernel, or is it a single file ??
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