From the course: Advanced Linux: The Linux Kernel

Prerequisites and takeaways - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Advanced Linux: The Linux Kernel

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Prerequisites and takeaways

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- [Instructor] What should you already know? Well, in this course we'll be looking inside the Linux kernel. Talking about Linux stuff so I recommend that you are familiar with working with Linux from the command line. Knowing some C programming and knowing how to edit files on Linux are all valuable. I'll skip over explaining some of the easy commands I use, but I'll comment on commands I use that are specific for our work with the kernel or are more obscure. Some of what we do involves reading and writing C code, so that's why I suggest you have experience with C. In this course I will be using Linux virtual machines. You should have a Linux virtual machine with root access available as well. It's just much safer to have a VM that you can corrupt or whatever and start over, right. VMs are just safer. If you're using a physical Linux machine working as root, you can do everything we do, it's just more risky., Bad things can happen, So make sure you have a backup or use a machine that'll be okay for you to reinstall Linux later if needed.

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