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Process hierarchy

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- Now that we've discussed package management inside of Linux, let's move on to understanding the process hierarchy. Now, in our previous lessons, we discussed the Linux kernel being the core of your Linux installation. The kernel is going to manage your memory, provide softwares with a way to access hard disks, doles out CPU time and resources, and performs all other sorts of critical low-level tasks. The kernel is loaded early up in the boot process, and it's the kernel that's responsible for managing every other piece of software on a running Linux computer. Now, one of the many ways that the kernel imposes order on the potential chaotic set of software running on the computer is to create a hierarchy. Now, when it boots up, the kernel is going to run just one program. This is known as /sbin/init, or the init process. Now, the init process is then responsible for starting up all of the other basic programs that…

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