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.
Thanks op this is a great article. Having compiled kernels since 2.4 or thenabouts, it’s a great topic and I never really thought of it as just another program. Neat stuff!