How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know

How Linux Works, 3rd Edition

Linux is different from some other operating systems because it doesn’t hide the important parts from you—it lets you have full control over your computer. To really become good at using Linux, you need to learn how it works from the inside out.

This includes understanding how the system starts up, how networks are set up, and what the kernel is responsible for. In this third edition of the popular book *How Linux Works*, author Brian Ward takes a look at the inner workings of Linux to help make these complex topics easier to understand.

This edition has been fully updated and made bigger, with new information on Logical Volume Manager (LVM), virtualization, and containers.