Topics I want to cover

Some things I want to write about:

• Pre-Linux:

  • BIOS and UEFI. The UEFI partition.

  • Bootloaders: grub.

  • Disk partition types: MRT and GPT.

  • Filesystems: ext4, fstab.

  • Installing programs from source. (What are keyrings?)

• The Linux kernel.

• systemd.

• Linux directory structure.

• Environment variables.

• chroot.

• Some key programs.

  • bash

  • make

  • and gzip

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-   `awk`

• Locales (keyboard?)

• Difference between root and sudo user. Difference betweem sudo and su.

• About calling it GNU/Linux.

• Everything in Linux is a file: directories are files, devices (such as the mouse) are files. Make this explanation very detailed.

• Symbolic links.

• System calls.

• Flatpak, system packages, snap.

• Login shells vs. non-login shells.

• udev.