you can read up the Operating system concepts book by Silberschatz & Galvin. Thats a good book to clear your basic concepts. -Abhi On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to learn more about the kernel, but when I'm reading articles it > has terms that are unfamiliar by me. E.g: > page tables > physical pages of memory > virtual pages > pages > etc.. > > These terms are hard to understand for a newbie like me, is there some page > where I might get clear information about what they do? Could someone > provide me explanation? Maybe it would be a good idea to do basic term > explanations in wiki? > > > Joe > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail en Messenger on the move > http://www.msn.nl/communicatie/smsdiensten/hotmailsmsv2/ > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/