Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
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Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
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Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#2I love this work, it inspired me to work on Inside LibreOffice.
https://www.gitbook.com/book/chrissherlock1/inside-libreoffi...
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#3I love this work, it inspired me to work on Inside LibreOffice. https://www.gitbook.com/book/chrissherlock1/inside-libreoffi...
In fact, StarView was in essence what we now call the Visual Components Library (VCL)
Any relation to the Borland/Delphi VCL?
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#4Nice. Way back in the day, maybe 20-25 years ago, I had a first look at the boot process and wish I'd had something similar to the first chapter then. Man, it was hard to find information and ones you did you realized understanding it meant learning an entirely new subject.
Those were the days really. Barely having started my English studies I went looking for a single piece of information and found so much else on the way.. The tinkering and nights of frustration gave insights and a feeling of accomplishment that set me on the path to the profession I have today.
Then I started high school and someone showed me a shaded and textured cube they had rotating on their screen and I found out what math is good for :)
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#5Besides some scattered text files and the Linux man pages, there is this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
It's fairly new - started about a year ago, but there's quite a lot of stuff in there already (bootstrapped from the old XML stuff, I believe).
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#6I love this work, it inspired me to work on Inside LibreOffice. https://www.gitbook.com/book/chrissherlock1/inside-libreoffi...
In fact, StarView was in essence what we now call the Visual Components Library (VCL) Any relation to the Borland/Delphi VCL?
Does not look like it.
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/tree/master/vcl
But I can see clear lines for confusion.
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#7Every time I start to fall into the conceit that I'm an exceptionally good developer, I look at things like kernels or low level hardware programming and eat a big ol' slice of humble pie.
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#8Every time I start to fall into the conceit that I'm an exceptionally good developer, I look at things like kernels or low level hardware programming and eat a big ol' slice of humble pie.
Why? It's just a different level of detail than you're used to. It's not magic.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fact, StarView was in essence what we now call the Visual Components Library (VCL) Any relation to the Borland/Delphi VCL?
Does not look like it. https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/tree/master/vcl But I can see clear lines for confusion.
clear lines. confusion.
Re: Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
#10Besides some scattered text files and the Linux man pages, there is this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ It's fairly new - started about a year ago, but there's quite a lot of stuff in there already (bootstrapped from the old XML stuff, I believe).
... That guide is actually fucking hilarious.
'However, that’s not too bad, because even the makers of GNU indent recognize the authority of K&R (the GNU people aren’t evil, they are just severely misguided in this matter)'