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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