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Linux Kernel Hacking: A Crash Course

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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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Oct 16, 2015

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  • awesome introduction to Linux kernel development

    by T B,

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    This was a great presentation of the topic. Very inspiring !

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  • Nice talk

    by James Harr,

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    tsia

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  • 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.

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  • Very Informative

    by Aamir Latif,

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    This is very concise and informative introduction of Linux kernel

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  • 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.

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