The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code that are used for varying purposes and that have varying properties by...
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Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/, LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
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Namespaces are a feature of the Linux kernel that partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set...
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structure. Linux portal Linux kernel interfaces Programming Linux Games "A goodbye note from Michael Kerrisk". lwn.net. Retrieved 2013-10-24. "Linux man-pages...
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NetworkManager (category Linux network-related software)
other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces. NetworkManager...
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Io uring (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
aioring) is a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations addressing performance issues with similar interfaces provided...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Kernel mode setting)
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that...
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Cgroups (redirect from Kernel memory control groups)
cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O,...
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The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions...
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