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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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Full system updates without a reboot? Sign me up.
Also sounds like we can run multiple kernels at once during normal operations, to isolate processes.
So, could I run a second kernel for, say, Docker to use? Isolate those containers away from the host system kernel?
Linux subsystem for linux
You know the very first thing someone is going to do is run Linux in Linux in Linux.
I thought the first would be Doom :(