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Embedded Linux Made Easy (4)

Part 4: A look at the kernel

Published in issue 430, October 2012

GNU/Linux provides interfaces and applications for devices that we are used to seeing on desktop computers and servers. Much of this transfers to the embedded domain, where Linux relieves the programmer of a lot of work by handling networking, USB, Bluetooth and more without the need to write complex dedicated C programs. And as we shall see, using a modern operating system brings many other benefits too.

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Watch the recorded session of the FREE Elektor Academy/element 14 Embedded Linux Made Easy webinar here

Relevant websites

part 1: www.elektor.com/120026
part 2: www.elektor.com/120146
part 3: www.elektor.com/120180
part 4: www.elektor.com/120181
part 5: www.elektor.com/120182
part 6: www.elektor.com/120578
part 7: www.elektor.com/120518

www.gnugeneration.com/mirrors/kernel-api/r4299.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Systems:_Design_and_Implementation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_control_block
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Mknod

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