Expalin the architecture of linux ??
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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.
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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.
Linux Operating System has primarily three components
Kernel − Kernel is the core part of Linux. It is responsible for all major activities of this operating system.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.
System Utility − System Utility programs are responsible to do specialized, individual level tasks.
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