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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)
  2. …(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?
  3. 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?
  4. 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
  5. 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?
  6. …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
  7. 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)
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Or you can read Linux Insides… :-) https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
    comment by jdub · 2016-07-09 · in Linux Signals – Internals
  14. …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
  15. …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)