Kernel: Don't Break Userspace and Don't Help Murderers Publish Articles
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Don't Break Userspace!
Don’t break userspace. This is Linus Torvald’s golden rule for development of the Linux kernel. For those of you reading this who are not familiar with the nature of Linux, or operating systems in general, the kernel is the heart and soul of an operating system. The kernel is what actually manages the hardware, moving bits around between storage and RAM, between the RAM and the CPU as things are computed, and all of the little devices and pieces of the actual computer that need to be controlled at the hardware level.
Every application or program written for an operating system has to interact with the kernel. When you download Photoshop, or Telegram, everything that program is doing boils down to essentially calling the kernel. “Hey kernel, take what I just typed and process it and send it over a network connection to the server.” “Hey kernel, take the color shift I made to this pitch, take it out of RAM and send it to the CPU to modify it, then put it back in RAM.”
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Ars Technica ☛ Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list [Ed: Conde Nast giving a voice to a wife murderer in prison while the staff of this site is also arrested (raping kids, Peter Bright). 'Journalism' associating Linux with murder [1, 2].]