I found this netbook(?) somewhere in old things and just wonder: can linux be installed on it?

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    7 months ago

    kernel != operating system

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know if it’s that cut and dry. If you study a Operative Systems class or buy a book about them, it’ll exclusively deal with the kernel.

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        7 months ago

        If you can give a reference to any such book, I’d be very interested to see it.

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          Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne is a classic OS textbook. Andrew Tanenbaum has some OS books too. I really liked his OS Design and Implementation book but I’m pretty sure that one is super outdated by now. I have not read his newer one but it is called Modern Operating Systems iirc.