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| 1 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 3 | <para>The <emphasis>kernel</emphasis> is the engine of your GNU/Linux system.
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| 4 | When switching on your box, the kernel is the first part of your operating
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| 5 | system that gets loaded. It detects and initializes all the components of your
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| 6 | computer's hardware, then makes these components available as a tree of files
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| 7 | to the software, and turns a single CPU into a multi-tasking machine capable
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| 8 | of running scores of programs seemingly at the same time.</para>
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| 10 | <para>The <emphasis>kernel headers</emphasis> define the interface to the
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| 11 | services that the kernel provides. The headers in your system's
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| 12 | <filename>include</filename> directory should <emphasis>always</emphasis> be
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| 13 | the ones against which Glibc was compiled and should therefore
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| 14 | <emphasis>not</emphasis> be replaced when upgrading the kernel.</para>
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| 16 | <para>The <filename>System.map</filename> file is a list of addresses and
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| 17 | symbols. It maps the entry points and addresses of all the functions and data
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| 18 | structures in the kernel.</para>
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| 20 | </sect2>
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