You will learn
- how applications are installed from repositories with
dnf (Fedora) and apt (Ubuntu)
- the difference between an executable and a process
- how an executable is loaded into a process
- how processes are created with
fork and exec
- the states of a process, and what orphan and zombie processes are
- how Linux starts and why
init cannot stop
- what file descriptors are
- how redirects and pipes work, and the special files
/dev/null, /dev/zero and /dev/urandom
- what soft links are, how they are followed and when they are broken
- how to look inside processes with the
/proc folder
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