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A book-in-progress about the Linux kernel and its insides.

82 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 67 stories, 15 comments · first 2015-01-04 · latest 2026-03-09

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  1. Working on update of linux-insides ( https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides ) adapting it for modern kernels versions
    comment by 0xAX · 2026-03-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
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    A book about the Linux kernel and its insides
    story by annilt · 2023-06-02 · 0 comments
  3. …(I didn't look at these very hard): https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/All-Stages-of-Linux-Booting-... https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Booting/li...
    comment by hayst4ck · 2023-03-20 · in Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?
  4. Maybe this repo could help: https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by leolas_95 · 2022-11-24 · in Ask HN: Linux kernel internals and development book?
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    A book-in-progress about the Linux kernel and its insides
    story by feross · 2022-05-21 · 0 comments
  6. The front page of the book directly links to https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI... , which makes it abundantly clear that this is the author of the book. > They clearly made an effort to stay anonymous. The word…
    comment by majewsky · 2022-05-15 · in Linux Insides
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    Linux Insides / Things Inside Linux
    story by gautamsomani · 2021-03-13 · 0 comments
  8. https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by hd4 · 2019-08-27 · in Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
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    0xAX/linux-insides: A little bit about a linux kernel
    story by axiomdata316 · 2018-11-08 · 0 comments
  10. …how sycalls are implemented on Linux in this excellent free GitHub book called linux-insides : https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/tree/master/SysCall I can highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the kernel. This…
    comment by vesinisa · 2018-08-08 · in Unix Syscalls
  11. This is very old, for a more recent version https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by r4um · 2018-04-22 · in Inside the Linux boot process (2006)
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    The Linux Kernel Boot Process – Linux-Insides at GitHub
    story by Valmar · 2018-04-22 · 0 comments
  13. …compiler in haskell [0] and to learn linux inside out [1] [0] http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/ [1] https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by verroq · 2018-02-27 · in Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch
  14. I haven't read it but I've seen https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides posted here a few times. Also https://littleosbook.github.io/
    comment by tlrobinson · 2018-02-27 · in Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch
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    Linux-insides: Linux kernel load address randomization
    story by 0xAX · 2018-01-07 · 10 comments
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    Linux-insides: Limits on resources in Linux
    story by 0xAX · 2017-07-30 · 7 comments
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    Linux-insides: Implementation of the open(2) system call
    story by 0xAX · 2017-01-29 · 0 comments
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    Linux-insides: Introduction to cgroups
    story by 0xAX · 2016-12-04 · 1 comment
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    Linux-insides: Notification chains in the Linux kernel
    story by 0xAX · 2016-11-06 · 0 comments
  20. Not a course, but I read nice things about this Linux Internals ebook: https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by camilojd · 2016-10-23 · in Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online
  21. https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides A different source for documentation on the Linux insides, for those who don't already know about it.
    comment by jdi · 2016-10-10 · in Memory FAQ
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    Linux-insides: Program startup process in userspace
    story by 0xAX · 2016-09-11 · 0 comments
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    0xAX/linux-insides: A little bit about a linux kernel
    story by kim031 · 2016-08-30 · 1 comment
  24. As for books about the Linux kernel, I'd recommend https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides (which, oddly, didn't seem to be linked)
    comment by a3_nm · 2016-08-16 · in Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel
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    Linux-insides: sequential locks in the Linux kernel
    story by 0xAX · 2016-07-10 · 8 comments
  26. Or you can read Linux Insides… :-) https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by jdub · 2016-07-09 · in Linux Signals – Internals
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    Linux-insides: Introduction to the kmemcheck in the Linux kernel
    story by 0xAX · 2016-06-12 · 0 comments
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    Linux-insides: Reader-Writer semaphores
    story by 0xAX · 2016-05-15 · 0 comments
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    Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel, Part 4
    story by 0xAX · 2016-05-08 · 2 comments
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    Inline assembly in Linux
    story by 0xAX · 2016-05-01 · 33 comments
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    Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel. Part 3
    story by ingve · 2016-04-24 · 0 comments
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    Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel, Part 3
    story by ingve · 2016-04-24 · 0 comments
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    Linux-insides: Queued spinlocks in the Linux kernel
    story by 0xAX · 2016-04-17 · 5 comments
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    Linux-insides: Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel. Part 1
    story by 0xAX · 2016-04-10 · 0 comments
  35. …thing that struck my attention is how little comments there are in Linux at times. Consider this: https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initializa... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/097f70b3c4d84ffccca15... Not a single…
    comment by d33 · 2016-04-04 · in Linux-insides: The initcall mechanism
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    Linux-insides: The initcall mechanism
    story by 0xAX · 2016-04-03 · 8 comments
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    Timers and time management in the Linux kernel, Part 7
    story by 0xAX · 2016-03-27 · 4 comments
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    Timers and time management in the Linux kernel – Part 6
    story by ingve · 2016-03-20 · 0 comments
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    Timers and time management in the Linux kernel, Part 5
    story by 0xAX · 2016-03-13 · 0 comments
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    Bit arrays and bit operations in the Linux kernel
    story by ingve · 2016-02-28 · 0 comments
  41. …this writeup efficiently, good example is the way linux booting was described using github. https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by rasz_pl · 2015-11-20 · in What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
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    Linux-insides: Introduction to timers in the Linux kernel
    story by 0xAX · 2015-10-25 · 0 comments
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    Linux-insides: Timers and time management in the Linux kernel. Part 3
    story by 0xAX · 2015-10-18 · 0 comments
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    Timers in the Linux kernel, Part 2: Introduction to the clocksource framework
    story by 0xAX · 2015-10-11 · 1 comment
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    Timers and time management in the Linux kernel, Part 1
    story by 0xAX · 2015-09-27 · 0 comments
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    Introduction to getting started with Linux kernel development
    story by 0xAX · 2015-09-20 · 3 comments
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    Linux-insides: How does the Linux kernel run a program?
    story by 0xAX · 2015-09-13 · 2 comments
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    Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 3
    story by 0xAX · 2015-09-06 · 1 comment
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    Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 2
    story by 0xAX · 2015-08-30 · 9 comments
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    Linux-insides: Introduction to system calls
    story by 0xAX · 2015-08-23 · 4 comments