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Alexandru Vaduva
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Alexandru Vaduva

Alexandru Vaduva is an embedded Linux software engineer whose main focus lies in the field of open source software. He has an inquiring mind and also believes that actions speak louder than words. He is a strong supporter of the idea that there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but there is always room for improvement. He has knowledge of C, Yocto, Linux, Bash, and Python, but he is also open to trying new things and testing new technologies. Alexandru Vaduva has been a reviewer of the book Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project, Packt Publishing, which is a great asset to the Yocto Project community.
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Kernel sources


The official location for the Linux kernel is available at http://www.kernel.org, but there a lot of smaller communities that contribute to the Linux kernel with their features or even maintain their own versions.

Although the Linux core contains the scheduler, memory management, and other features, it is quite small in size. The extremely large number of device drivers, architectures and boards support together with filesystems, network protocols and all the other components were the ones that made the size of the Linux kernel really big. This can be seen by taking a look at the size of the directories of the Linux.

The Linux source code structure contains the following directories:

  • arch: This contains architecture-dependent code

  • block: This contains the block layer core

  • crypto: This contains cryptographic libraries

  • drivers: This gathers all the implementation of the device drivers with the exception of the sound ones

  • fs: This gathers all the available implementations of filesystem...

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Alexandru Vaduva

Alexandru Vaduva is an embedded Linux software engineer whose main focus lies in the field of open source software. He has an inquiring mind and also believes that actions speak louder than words. He is a strong supporter of the idea that there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but there is always room for improvement. He has knowledge of C, Yocto, Linux, Bash, and Python, but he is also open to trying new things and testing new technologies. Alexandru Vaduva has been a reviewer of the book Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project, Packt Publishing, which is a great asset to the Yocto Project community.
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