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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-01-24 00:31:17 +0000 |
| commit | 6370fa6cff0ec2a8ac8d50d1595ec9500f6631c9 (patch) | |
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| parent | 5c930fe6eb43d23cfa0de2451d9a905a8505f981 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/appendixa/kernel-desc.sgml b/appendixa/kernel-desc.sgml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..48b240640 --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/kernel-desc.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<sect2><title>Contents</title> + +<para> +The Linux kernel package contains the Linux kernel. +</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Description</title> + +<para> +The Linux kernel is at the core of every Linux system. It's what makes +Linux tick. When you turn on your computer and boot a Linux system, the +very first piece of Linux software that gets loaded is the kernel. The +kernel initializes the system's hardware components such as serial +ports, parallel ports, sound cards, network cards, IDE controllers, SCSI +controllers and a lot more. In a nutshell the kernel makes the hardware +available so that the software can run. +</para> + +</sect2> + |