Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Linux in 100 Seconds" video.

  1. 0:53 Also worth mentioning filesystems, network protocol stacks, and security management, as additional important parts of the kernel.
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  2. There’s a lot of truth in that. Everything is a file, every kernel API is a filesystem, and every kernel object can be accessed via a file descriptor. This makes it very easy, for example, to use regular shell commands to poke around /sys to manage the state of your hardware, you don’t need special tools written to special APIs. Sometimes you see signs of “file envy” on the part of Microsoft. Like when Powershell tries to make the Registry API look like a filesystem, only it isn’t, really, because that abstraction doesn’t work outside of Powershell.
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  3. Why don’t you write one?
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