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- This is work in progress. At the Linux Kongress in Berlin I was asked
- about the possibility of a book about Linux and I foolishly agreed to
- think about it. This latex/xfig source tree is the result of that
- thinking. There are a few things to note:
-
- (1) This is GNU copyleft'd work that I intend "donating" to the Linux
- Documentation Project (it may also be published seperately),
-
- (2) This is not the Kernel Hacker's Guide. It is intended to be
- read (and understood) by people who use Linux and would like to
- understand how the operating system works. A good example would be
- someone who can set up a swap file but doesn't understand how Linux
- swaps (read chapter 3),
-
- (3) It is not a Linux Internals document. I've tried to make it
- pretty generic, although the data structure definitions are perhaps
- less generic than I like.
-
- (4) The name ("The Linux Kernel") is a working title only, maybe I lack
- imagination but I can't yet think of what it should be called.
-
- Dave Rusling @ 4th July 1996
-