Summary

In this final chapter, we covered the basics of what an OS does and how the Linux kernel manages all tasks invisibly. We reviewed Linux’s primary points by briefly covering SysCalls, kernel modules, and kernel versions. The following practical topic was how to switch the kernel version on Manjaro. We finished with the Linux RT kernel and what it is used for.

I hope this book was as great an adventure for you as it was for me. My sole purpose was to cover all possible essential topics, along with some history and simple explanations.

I’m highly grateful to the Packt Publishing team, who did their best to keep me on track and support me throughout. I am also highly grateful to my technical editor, Kaloyan Krastev, who spent hundreds of hours checking my work and providing feedback on the text’s structure, definitions, and quality.

We all owe a great deal to Philip Müller (the project director and creator of Manjaro) and the Manjaro team, as...