Linux Kernel

Kernel

When we listen word kernel. First question arises what is kernel? Why it is being used etc.

So I will be briefing about all details related to kernel in this blog.


What is kernel?

Kernel is import component of any Operating System whether it is Windows, Linux , Mac or any other operating system. In this blog , I will be focusing on Linux Kernel only. So lets dive in for Linux Kernel.

Linux Kernel is application which interact with hardware.  Linux Distros like Ubuntu,RHEL,CentOs,Fedora etc are build on top of kernel. 


Every distro compile kernel as per their requirement and then build OS on top of kernel. Kernel is made of various modules. So here we will talk about the kernel modules. 


* List kernel modules

To list kernel modules fire below commands. 

"lsmod"

To know more about specific kernel module . 

"modinfo <module_name>" 

    Module name can be listed using lsmod command. 

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