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Linux Insides. A detailed guide to how the Linux operating system works under the hood.
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Updates
July 2026
- general: normalize curly quotes and dashes to ASCII punctuation
- boot-1: Improve description of bss zeroing
- boot-2: Improve table rendering
- build(deps): bump actions/labeler from 6 to 7
- build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7
- general: restructure misc
- summary: add GDT section
- summary: Move out data types from the toolchain
- summary: drop write and submit a patch link
- scripts: Make check_code_snippets.py executable
- Merge pull request #933 from 0xAX/dependabot/github_actions/actions/l…
- build(deps): bump actions/labeler from 5 to 6
- Merge pull request #932 from 0xAX/dependabot/github_actions/crazy-max…
- build(deps): bump crazy-max/ghaction-github-labeler from 5 to 6
- Merge pull request #931 from 0xAX/ci/labeler
- ci: introduce labeler
- Merge pull request #930 from 0xAX/improve-structure
- Update README(s) in new structure
- Update links for new structure
- Restructure Misc and KernelStructures to Theory and X86
- Merge pull request #929 from 0xAX/update-ubuntu
- general: update CI jobs to ubuntu 24.04
June 2026
- Merge pull request #832 from JDuchniewicz/init3
- Merge pull request #927 from 0xAX/init-2/improvements
- init-2: adjust part to the modern kernel versions
- Merge pull request #926 from 0xAX/dependabot/github_actions/actions/c…
- build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7
- Merge pull request #924 from 0xAX/kernel-version-update
- general: Update kernel compatibility to 7.1
- Merge pull request #925 from 0xAX/boot-6/fix-code-annotation