I have been banging my head against Google and how advertising is swamping the truth on the internet just to find a good education source to teach me about how Linux handles hardware. Preferably some kind of visual system for it. If you make things schematic they are easier to understand. Needless to say I have had no luck finding a good treatment of how Linux handles hardware. I have checked books and they only give a cursory, “Linux is a file based system; hardware is attached through virtual files,” but I want a visual tree or something that will make it easier to explore how things are run by Linux. If it is a file system like the book says, then there should be a way to create a poster to help someone figure out how to open and explore the drivers and files that load with the kernel. That’s what I am hoping to get out of this, but I was thinking a sticky for all educational resources on the net and in print might be a good idea. It would take some management to do it right: make it with a header where you list the resources from the net first and then from print, organize them by subject, then allow people to add their own resources so that they can be checked and added to the header list. Just a thought. I’d be happy to put in some time to research if the links and materials are valid, to start it off. I just think it would be a great addition to what seems to me to be the one distro of Linux that really cares about the quality of it’s documentation. Like I said, I’d be happy to help by researching the links and materials so we can be sure they are good ones, but as a newbe I don’t think I could help with more than this.
benjitao wrote:
> I have been banging my head against Google and how advertising is
> swamping the truth on the internet just to find a good education source
> to teach me about how Linux handles hardware. Preferably some kind of
> visual system for it. If you make things schematic they are easier to
> understand. Needless to say I have had no luck finding a good treatment
> of how Linux handles hardware. I have checked books and they only give
> a cursory, “Linux is a file based system; hardware is attached through
> virtual files,” but I want a visual tree or something that will make it
> easier to explore how things are run by Linux. If it is a file system
> like the book says, then there should be a way to create a poster to
> help someone figure out how to open and explore the drivers and files
> that load with the kernel. That’s what I am hoping to get out of this,
> but I was thinking a sticky for all educational resources on the net and
> in print might be a good idea. It would take some management to do it
> right: make it with a header where you list the resources from the net
> first and then from print, organize them by subject, then allow people
> to add their own resources so that they can be checked and added to the
> header list. Just a thought. I’d be happy to put in some time to
> research if the links and materials are valid, to start it off. I just
> think it would be a great addition to what seems to me to be the one
> distro of Linux that really cares about the quality of it’s
> documentation. Like I said, I’d be happy to help by researching the
> links and materials so we can be sure they are good ones, but as a newbe
> I don’t think I could help with more than this.
>
>
First and foremost I suggest the Rute Guide.
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
benjitao wrote:
> teach me about how Linux handles hardware.
I know that above is clear to you, but I do not know what you are
looking for exactly when you say “handles”.
The Linux kernel interacts with (not ‘handles’) the computer’s
hardware through the hardware’s own, flashed in, BIOS (Basic
Input/Output System, see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS>) by
handling (not interacting with) ones (1s) and zeros (0s) (aka:
digital data and/or on and off). It pushes those two digits around at
fantastic speeds though gates, memory locations and whatits in
accordance with the software application being run at the time.
> there should be a way to create a poster
You buy a machine, add electricity and it handles itself. The machine
and its BIOS have done their jobs correctly when it just sits there
and says: “Operating system not found.”
Then you load in your choice of one or more operating systems to
handle your digital data by interacting with the hardware though
drivers and the BIOS.
No visual-aids needed.
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