Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup
valyala
78 points
15 comments
May 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
LPisGood
The AI image and immediate emoji bullet point really turn me off from investing in a 36 minute read from a blog started in late 2025.
jammcq
I'm really enjoying this article. Many years ago when I created LTSP I had to dive in and understand how the whole bzImage and initrd worked so we could fetch a kernel with tftp and mount a root filesystem via NFS. It's been years since I've played with this stuff but it's still very interesting to me. Thank you!
oncallthrow
I came, I saw the em dash, I closed the tab
SilentM68
Very interesting :)
whattheheckheck
Is this the future? Trillion dollar companies suck up all content from the internet and published media they can get their hands on and then we all pay them to pull out what we all individually scooped up into chunks from experience and republish it as potentially repetitive and non authoritative source material? I guess there's a bit of signal in there, another person thought this nugget of symbols is worth paying attention to