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Linux Kernel Hacking: A Crash Course
Summary
Georgi Knox conducts a hands on session overviewing the history of Linux, what the kernel is, what system calls are, how to write modules, how to build a kernel, etc.
Bio
Georgi Knox is an Aussie software engineer now living in New York City where she's forever in search of a good flat white. She writes lots of code in all the languages and enjoys dressing her cats up in costume. Georgi has over 7 years software engineering experience with large scale web applications, is a Hacker School alumna and currently works in Bitly's Application Engineering team.
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Community comments
awesome introduction to Linux kernel development
by T B,
Nice talk
by James Harr,
Excellent intro to kernel dev
by Manoranjan Magudamudi,
Very Informative
by Aamir Latif,
It was awesome but rudimentary
by Ali MoezGholami,
awesome introduction to Linux kernel development
by T B,
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This was a great presentation of the topic. Very inspiring !
Nice talk
by James Harr,
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tsia
Excellent intro to kernel dev
by Manoranjan Magudamudi,
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A quick and excellent talk on Kernel dev. Definitely going to try this out.
Very Informative
by Aamir Latif,
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This is very concise and informative introduction of Linux kernel
It was awesome but rudimentary
by Ali MoezGholami,
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In our university, UT (University of Tehran), as OS lab projects for undergraduate students, we compile Linux, develop kernel modules to hook system calls and alter cpu scheduling (processor affinity, completely fair scheduling) and concurrency and memory management mechanisms.