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Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program


Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: the Linux kernel is just a binary that you can build and run.

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