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>Chapter 2. Overview of a Linux System</H1
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>Various parts of an operating system</A
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>"God saw everything that he
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had made, and saw that it was very good. "</SPAN
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> -- Bible
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King James Version. Genesis 1:31</P
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>This chapter gives an overview of a Linux system. First,
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the major services provided by the operating system are described.
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Then, the programs that implement these services are described
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with a considerable lack of detail. The purpose of this chapter
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is to give an understanding of the system as a whole, so that
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each part is described in detail elsewhere.</P
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