It is several days that the DevTeam has announced that it has managed to make a port of Linux on the iPhone . In fact for now is only an attempt, a classic proof of concept because they have "only" created a new boot loader called OpeniBoot and ported the kernel 2.6. The system still does not recognize all the hardware of the phone, but we can say that is a great start!
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This post was written by admin on December 2, 2008
Often those new to Linux Kernel hear about but do not know what it is looking on the internet and an explanation of "simple" you will come across diatribes between monolithic kernels and microkernels or complicated explanations where those who wanted only three lines to give "a face to a name ", she finds herself lost and more confused than before. Let me try to explain simply what is a kernel and kernel flavors are there.
The kernel is the core of the operating system, where you carry out basic tasks such as assigning hardware resources between different applications that request it.
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This post was written by admin on November 27, 2008
Talking about Linux is how to speak the Italian language is one, but every country, province and region has its own variant, its dialect.
Linux is no exception, of course, affect the distribution of its variants, all based on the work of Linus Torvalds in the kernel, but then everyone has taken a different path by creating your own distro, which is a customization of the software package that will be included in the cd / dvd.
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This post was written by admin on November 18, 2008
I read from this site that the kernel version 2.6.27 has reached ten million lines, a number to think about it very impressive for a free software developed by a community of people around the world. Even cleaning up by blank lines and comments, the number of lines of code "real" is still more than six million. Almost all of the code is written in ANSI / C.
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This post was written by admin on November 3, 2008
At this address you can find a complete map of the Linux kernel, potendoci surf like a map "Road", also making the zoom on the blocks that interest you most and being able to go into detail of macro instructions, they can click to see its source.
For true fans, or those tired of counting sheep to fall asleep 
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This post was written by admin on October 24, 2008
