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Why can the waitpid system call only be used with child processes?

A layman's explanation for "Everything is a file" — what differs from Windows?

Why do we need to fork to create new processes?

What are the minimum root filesystem applications that are required to fully boot linux?

Process in user mode switch to kernel mode. Then the process will have root privileges?

How are system commands like ls created?

How do keyboard input and text output work?

Interpret the output of lstopo

Rings and run levels

How can I build a rpm for i386 target on a x86-64 machine?