Linux Internals 01 - Operating System Overview
What an operating system does and the role of the Linux kernel
Linux Internals
Understanding the Linux kernel from processes and memory to containers
Engineers who use Linux daily and want to understand what the kernel is doing underneath familiar commands and APIs.
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Linux Internals 02 - Processes and Threads
How processes are created and managed in Linux, and how threads relate to them
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Linux Internals 03 - Process Scheduling
How the Linux kernel distributes CPU time among processes and how CFS works
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Linux Internals 04 - Memory Management
The concept of virtual memory and how the Linux kernel manages memory
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Linux Internals 05 - File Systems
How VFS, inodes, and ext4 work in the world where everything is a file
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Linux Internals 06 - System Calls and the Kernel
How a system call transitions from user space to kernel space, and how kernel modules work
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Linux Internals 07 - I/O and Devices
From block and character devices to I/O schedulers, DMA, and the page cache
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Linux Internals 08 - Synchronization and Concurrency
The problems that arise when multiple execution flows access shared resources, and the synchronization mechanisms in the Linux kernel
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Linux Internals 09 - Networking
The Linux kernel networking stack and how a packet travels from NIC to application
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Linux Internals 10 - Containers and Virtualization
How namespaces and cgroups create containers, and a wrap-up connecting all kernel concepts