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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 % The Linux Kernel
 
+---
+subtitle: WTF is Linux
+---
+
 [back](index.md)
 
 TODO: A word about how the kernel is in charge of enforcing security
@@ -9,11 +13,11 @@ TODO: Talk about `dmesg`
 Role
 ----
 
-A kernel is a piece of software that is loaded at boot time. It is a
-component that is responsible for "orchestrating" the OS in different
-manners. There are different types of kernel in this world, and they may
-have different responsibilities. We will be focusing solely on the role
-of the Linux kernel here.
+A kernel is a piece of software that's loaded at boot time. It's a component
+that's responsible for "orchestrating" the OS in different manners. There are
+different types of kernel in this world, and they may have different
+responsibilities. We will be focusing solely on the role of the Linux kernel
+here.
 
 ### Hardware control and abstraction
 
@@ -29,21 +33,22 @@ Without hardware control, each software would have to consciously and
 constantly collaborate with each other to avoid conflict when accessing
 each piece of hardware.
 
-With the Linux kernel accessing the hardware is gated by an API: each
-software that wants to access the hard drive has to go use system calls
-(e.g.: `read(2)` / `write(2)`), and the kernel will then schedule
-these tasks sequentially.
+With the Linux kernel, accessing the hardware is gated by an API: each
+software that wants to access the hard drive has to use system calls (e.g.:
+`read(2)` / `write(2)`), and the kernel will then schedule these tasks
+as it see fits, without having to "collaborate" with anyone.
 
 Another important point, is that without the Linux kernel, each piece of
 software would have to care if the hard drive is a spinning disk, an
 SSD, or a USB stick, or if is connected using a SATA cable, a USB cable,
 etc.
 
-The Linux kernel allows us to not care about this, and provides us with
-the filesystem abstraction, and mount points. To the software developer
-doing a `read` on a file doesn't change if the file is stored on an
-SSD or even on a network filesystem, because the kernel will check that
-for us, and apply the appropriate logic.
+The Linux kernel allows us to not care about this, and provides us with the
+[file system](./file-system.md) abstraction, and [mount
+points](./file-system.md#mounts). To the software developer doing a `read` on a
+file doesn't change if the file is stored on an SSD or even on a network file
+system, because the kernel will check that for us, and apply the appropriate
+logic.
 
 ### Multitasking
 
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ Each of these 5 applications feels responsive even if the CPU can only run 4 of
 them at the time.
 
 This is because the kernel is responsible for switching the tasks that the CPU
-runs (a.k.a. scheduling). Theses tasks / applications are switched quickly and
+runs (a.k.a. scheduling). These tasks / applications are switched quickly and
 in such a way that they feel responsive to the user.
 
 The Linux kernel also provides developers with another abstraction to
@@ -75,7 +80,7 @@ and if they want to run more tasks concurrently than the amount of
 available CPU cores, they would have to implement their own task
 scheduler.
 
-Thankfully we do not have to care about that, because the Linux kernel
+Thankfully we don't have to care about that, because the Linux kernel
 cares about it for us instead.
 
 Sources
@@ -93,9 +98,9 @@ The official sources of the Linux kernel can be found in
         [Debian](https://sources.debian.org/patches/linux/5.7.6-1/),
         [Gentoo](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/linux-patches.git/tree/?h=5.7))
 
-The official programming language of the Linux kernel is C. It is
-heavily documented in the `Documentation` subdirectory, using the
-sphinx documentation system.
+The official programming language of the Linux kernel is C. It's heavily
+documented in the `Documentation` subdirectory, using the sphinx documentation
+system.
 
 
 Versioning
@@ -129,10 +134,14 @@ TODO: Also refer to their Debian, Ubuntu, etc. packages.
 Configuring the kernel
 ----------------------
 
+TODO
+
 ```sh
-make nconfig
+make menuconfig
 ```
 
+TODO: explain what's a module
+
 Building the kernel
 -------------------