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    Linux is a popular open source version of UNIX with a similar functionality. It has a kernel at its core that interacts directly with hardware and provides services to other components. System libraries implement operating system functions without direct kernel access, while system utilities perform specialized tasks. The architecture of Linux consists of hardware, kernel, shell, and utilities layers.

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    Linux is a popular open source version of UNIX with a similar functionality. It has a kernel at its core that interacts directly with hardware and provides services to other components. System libraries implement operating system functions without direct kernel access, while system utilities perform specialized tasks. The architecture of Linux consists of hardware, kernel, shell, and utilities layers.

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    Linux is a popular open source version of UNIX with a similar functionality. It has a kernel at its core that interacts directly with hardware and provides services to other components. System libraries implement operating system functions without direct kernel access, while system utilities perform specialized tasks. The architecture of Linux consists of hardware, kernel, shell, and utilities layers.

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    ARCHITECTURE OF LINUX

    Linux is one of popular version of UNIX operating System. It is open source as its
    source code is freely available. It is free to use. Linux was designed considering
    UNIX compatibility. Its functionality list is quite similar to that of UNIX.

    Components of Linux System


    Kernel − Kernel is the core part of Linux. It is responsible for all major activities of this
    operating system. It consists of various modules and it interacts directly with the
    underlying hardware. Kernel provides the required abstraction to hide low level hardware
    details to system or application programs. it interacts directly with the underlying
    hardware. Kernel provides the required abstraction to hide low level hardware details to
    system or application programs.
    SYSTEM LIBRARY
    ● System libraries are special functions or programs using which application
    programs or system utilities accesses Kernel's features. These libraries
    implement most of the functionalities of the operating system and do not
    ● requires kernel module's code access rights.

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    SYSTEM UTILITY
    ● System Utility − System Utility programs are responsible to do specialized, individual
    level tasks.
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    BASIC FEATURES

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    PORTABLE − Portability means software can works on different types of
    hardware in same way. Linux kernel and application programs supports their
    installation on any kind of hardware platform.
    OPEN SOURCE− Linux source code is freely available and it is community
    based development project. Multiple teams work in collaboration to enhance
    the capability of Linux operating system and it is continuously evolving.
    MULTI USER − Linux is a multiuser system means multiple users can access
    system resources like memory/ ram/ application programs at same time.
    MULTIPROGRAMMING − Linux is a multiprogramming system means
    multiple applications can run at same time.
    HIERARCHIAL FILE SYSTEM− Linux provides a standard file structure in
    which system files/ user files are arranged.
    SHELL− Linux provides a special interpreter program which can be used to
    execute commands of the operating system. It can be used to do various
    types of operations, call application programs. etc.
    SECURITY − Linux provides user security using authentication features like
    password protection/ controlled access to specific files/ encryption of data.
    ARCHITECTURE
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    F OLLOWING ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE ARCHITECTURE OF LINUX
    The architecture of a Linux System consists of the following layers −
    HARDWARE LAYER− Hardware consists of all peripheral devices (RAM/ HDD/ CPU etc).

    KERNEL − It is the core component of Operating System, interacts directly with hardware,
    provides low level services to upper layer components.

    SHELL − An interface to kernel, hiding complexity of kernel's functions from users. The shell takes
    commands from the user and executes kernel's functions.

    UTILITES − Utility programs that provide the user most of the functionalities of an operating
    systems.
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