linux-insides VS what-happens-when

Linux kernel and its insides https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

I liked this: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

It explains the boot process from the cpu initialization to a the end of the linux kernel initialization.

Are you talking about that - https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides ? The link you added doe not work for me. I think there is a connection between the two. I don't mind contributing to that.

Linux kernel and its insides — kernel insides, and other low-level subject matter

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides and https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/labs/introduction.html are also good places to start. Do check them out.

I am referencing the book https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.md

Agreed!

It reminds me of:

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

and how many of today’s CS-degree holders would barely understand any of it. As someone who has also “grown up with all the technology”, I’ve learned and experienced all that. But as a percentage of “software engineers”, there’s fewer and fewer that do every day.

There is a pretty comprehensive answer to number 2 here

Ask them to describe what happens when you visit a website and grill them on every layer of abstraction, every implementation detail.

This is a classic interview question and it basically means "How does internet work?" It is great because it allows to check how many levels of understanding it a developer has. The answer may be quite lengthy, for example: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

Perhaps you will find https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when useful.